quart d’heure américain
The verdict
“quart d’heure américain” 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: Moment, dans une soirée, où ce sont les femmes qui invitent les hommes à danser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quart d’heure américain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ d‿œ.ʁ‿a.me.ʁi.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quart d’heure américain” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quart d’heure américain is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ d‿œ.ʁ‿a.me.ʁi.kɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Moment, dans une soirée, où ce sont les femmes qui invitent les hommes à danser.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quart d’heure américain 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’heure américain, spelled Q-U-A-R-T- -D-’-H-E-U-R-E- -A-M-É-R-I-C-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Moment, dans une soirée, où ce sont les femmes qui invitent les hommes à danser.
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Using “quart d’heure américain”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-R-T- -D-’-H-E-U-R-E- -A-M-É-R-I-C-A-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁ d‿œ.ʁ‿a.me.ʁi.kɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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