quarterback
\kwaʁ.tœʁ.bak\
The verdict
“quarterback” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,272
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quart-arrière : poste offensif, juste derrière la ligne offensive, au football américain et au football canadien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quarterback · quarterback · French
quarterback · rank #34,272 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,272
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH ramassis
Nearest frequency peer: ramassis (+2 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 « quarterback »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- propane
propane
65,733 corpus weight
- préoccupante
préoccupante
65,732 corpus weight
- quarterback
quarterback
65,729 corpus weight
- ramassis
ramassis
65,727 corpus weight
- rayée
rayée
65,726 corpus weight
- recompositi…
recomposition
65,725 corpus weight
What this shows « quarterback » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarterback |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwaʁ.tœʁ.bak\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #34,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quarterback »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around quarterback (IPA \kwaʁ.tœʁ.bak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,272 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Quart-arrière : poste offensif, juste derrière la ligne offensive, au football américain et au football canadien.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for quarterback, with forms such as "qaurterback", "qquarterback", and "quaretrback". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is quarterback, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-R-B-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Quart-arrière : poste offensif, juste derrière la ligne offensive, au football américain et au football canadien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quarterback appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La top model Gisele Bündchen n’a pas assisté au premier match à domicile de son mari, Tom Brady, le quarterback de Tampa Bay.
T’es pas un arrière défensif ou un receveur vite oublié… ni même Julan Washington. T’es un putain de quarterback !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaurterback
- qquarterback
- quaretrback
- quarrterback
- quartebrack
- quarterabck
- quarterbacck
- quarterbackk
- quarterbakc
- quarterbback
- quarterbcak
- quarterrback
- quartreback
- quartterback
- quatrerback
- quraterback
- uqarterback
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quarterback - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).