quarter
\kwaʁ.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“quarter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,131
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce d'un quart de dollar américain, soit 25 cents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quarter · quarter · French
quarter · rank #48,131 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,131
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH Q1
Nearest frequency peer: Q1 (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quarter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pyrrhus
Pyrrhus
51,873 corpus weight
- périrent
périrent
51,872 corpus weight
- Q1
Q1
51,871 corpus weight
- quarter
quarter
51,870 corpus weight
- quémander
quémander
51,868 corpus weight
- rachetées
rachetées
51,867 corpus weight
What this shows « quarter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwaʁ.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quarter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around quarter (IPA \kwaʁ.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,131 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pièce d'un quart de dollar américain, soit 25 cents.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for quarter, with forms such as "qaurter", "qquarter", and "quaretr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "quarts", "quartz", "quitter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is quarter, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pièce d'un quart de dollar américain, soit 25 cents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quarter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les cabarets de Harlem, il y a encore des consommateurs qui ont gardé la vieille coutume de jeter des pièces de monnaie, en pourboire, aux musiciens qui leur ont plu. Un noir est venu déposer un quarter (le quart d’un dollar) sur le coin du piano.
Il n'y eut plus de vélos jonchant le trottoir devant le magasin général de la famille Hendorf où l'on pouvait acheter une poignée de bonbons avec un quarter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaurter
- qquarter
- quaretr
- quarrter
- quarterr
- quartre
- quartter
- quatrer
- qurater
- uqarter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quarter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).