quarte augmentée
The verdict
“quarte augmentée” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Intervalle musical constitué de trois tons, de fait aussi appelé triton, enharmonie de la quinte diminuée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarte augmentée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁt oɡ.mɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quarte augmentée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quarte augmentée is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁt oɡ.mɑ̃.te\. 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 musical constitué de trois tons, de fait aussi appelé triton, enharmonie de la quinte diminuée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quarte augmentée 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 quarte augmentée, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E- -A-U-G-M-E-N-T-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Intervalle musical constitué de trois tons, de fait aussi appelé triton, enharmonie de la quinte diminuée.
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-R-T-E- -A-U-G-M-E-N-T-É-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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