quart de ton
The verdict
“quart de ton” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Intervalle d'une valeur du quart d'un ton, ou de la moitié d'un demi-ton, utilisé en musique microtonale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quart de ton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ də tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quart de ton” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quart de ton is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ də tɔ̃\. 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: "Intervalle d'une valeur du quart d'un ton, ou de la moitié d'un demi-ton, utilisé en musique microtonale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quart de ton 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 de ton, spelled Q-U-A-R-T- -D-E- -T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Intervalle d'une valeur du quart d'un ton, ou de la moitié d'un demi-ton, utilisé en musique microtonale.
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Using “quart de ton”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-R-T- -D-E- -T-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁ də tɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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