quart d’agent de change
The verdict
“quart d’agent de change” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Personne ayant investi pour un quart dans la charge d’un agent de change.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quart d’agent de change |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ d‿a.ʒɑ̃ də ʃɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quart d’agent de change” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quart d’agent de change is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ d‿a.ʒɑ̃ də ʃɑ̃ʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for quart d’agent de change in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is quart d’agent de change, spelled Q-U-A-R-T- -D-’-A-G-E-N-T- -D-E- -C-H-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne ayant investi pour un quart dans la charge d’un agent de change.
- 21857 : Il [Jules Verne] se marie le 10 janvier, dans une intimité qui désole ses parents, férus d’un certain formalisme. Pour faire vivre sa femme, il devient, grâce à un prêt consenti par son père, quart d’agent de change à la charge Eggly, rue de Provence. — (Ghislain de Diesbach, Jules Verne politiquement incorrect ?, Via Romana, Versailles, 2019, ISBN 978-2-37271-135-7, « Chronologie vernienne », p. 19)
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-R-T- -D-’-A-G-E-N-T- -D-E- -C-H-A-N-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁ d‿a.ʒɑ̃ də ʃɑ̃ʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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