quarte
\kaʁt\
The verdict
“quarte” is uncommon French (frequency #63,276 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,276
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intervalle de quatre notes consécutives, y compris les deux extrêmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quarte · quarte · French
quarte · rank #63,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,276
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH pétrolifères
Nearest frequency peer: pétrolifères (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « quarte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- péritonite
péritonite
36,729 corpus weight
- pétrolifères
pétrolifères
36,726 corpus weight
- quarte
quarte
36,725 corpus weight
- quintes
quintes
36,724 corpus weight
- radiant
radiant
36,723 corpus weight
- ragot
ragot
36,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quarte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quarte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quarte is uncommon French at frequency #63,276 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quarte, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is quarte, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Intervalle de quatre notes consécutives, y compris les deux extrêmes.
- 2Manière de porter ou de parer un coup d’épée ou de fleuret en tournant le poignet en dehors.
- 3Au jeu de piquet, désigne quatre cartes de même couleur qui se suivent. On dit aussi quatrième.
- 4Soixantième partie de la tierce, qui est elle-même la soixantième partie de la seconde.
- 5Ancienne mesure de volume valant deux pintes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quarte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un intervalle de quarte.
Quarte juste ou simplement Quarte : Celle dont la valeur est de deux tons et demi.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).