quarte
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#63,276
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
quarte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Intervalle de quatre notes consécutives, y compris les deux extrêmes. Pronounced \kaʁt\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quarte is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁt\. Corpus data places it at rank #63,276 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quarte in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 quarte, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #63,276 in French
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