quarteron
\kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“quarteron” is uncommon French (frequency #70,982 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,982
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quart d’une livre (soit 125 grammes dans le cas d'une livre métrique) ; pour de petits aliments (framboises, fraises, beurre, etc.)
Corpus desk
Index FR-quarteron · quarteron · French
quarteron · rank #70,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,982
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quatrièmement
Nearest frequency peer: quatrièmement (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « quarteron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pyromanes
pyromanes
29,022 corpus weight
- pêcherie
pêcherie
29,021 corpus weight
- quarteron
quarteron
29,019 corpus weight
- quatrièmeme…
quatrièmement
29,018 corpus weight
- quiero
quiero
29,017 corpus weight
- quies
quies
29,016 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quarteron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarteron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quarteron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quarteron is uncommon French at frequency #70,982 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for quarteron in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is quarteron, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Quart d’une livre (soit 125 grammes dans le cas d'une livre métrique) ; pour de petits aliments (framboises, fraises, beurre, etc.)
- 2Quart d’un cent, d’une centaine ; pour de grandes pièces (œufs, pommes…).
- 3Petit groupe de personnes, parfois employé péjorativement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quarteron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prenez demi-livre de miel de Narbonne, & au défaut de bon miel blanc, & un quarteron de fleur de soufre […] mêlez-les ensemble, & que le malade en prenne tous les jours […]
Et y eût aussi belle lumière savoir 45 cierges d'un carteron pièce pour mettre au râtelier qui est autour du cœur dudit Saint-Pierre & 16 de demi livres pièce pour mettre sur les autels.
Synonyms
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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