quarte
\kaʁt\
The verdict
“quarte” is uncommon French (frequency #63,276 among 11,618 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,276
- frequency rank, French
- 11,618
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Intervalle de quatre notes consécutives, y compris les deux extrêmes.
| 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) |
Where “quarte” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quarte is uncommon French at frequency #63,276 among 11,618 “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.
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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Using “quarte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.