quartet
\kwaʁ.tɛ\
The verdict
“quartet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,480
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe de deux neutrons et deux protons, dans un noyau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quartet · quartet · French
quartet · rank #41,480 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,480
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH qualitatives
Nearest frequency peer: qualitatives (-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 « quartet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pénitents
pénitents
58,524 corpus weight
- périph
périph
58,523 corpus weight
- qualitatives
qualitatives
58,522 corpus weight
- quartet
quartet
58,521 corpus weight
- raconterai
raconterai
58,520 corpus weight
- rafraîchiss…
rafraîchissement
58,519 corpus weight
What this shows « quartet » 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 | quartet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwaʁ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quartet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around quartet (IPA \kwaʁ.tɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,480 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for quartet, with forms such as "qaurtet", "qquartet", and "quarett". 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. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "quarts", "quartz", "quartier", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is quartet, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-T.
Definition
- 1Groupe de deux neutrons et deux protons, dans un noyau.
- 2Groupe de quatre bits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quartet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mc Lennan et Ainslie produisant un arc dans la vapeur de lithium et utilisant une méthode interférentielle ont prouvé que la raie considérée est un quartet avec les intervalles 0,128 A., 0,173 A. et 0,165 A. [76]. Les auteurs considèrent comme vraisemblable que, sur ces quatre raies, deux sont attribuables à Li6 et deux à Li7, mais il subsiste une incerti…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaurtet
- qquartet
- quarett
- quarrtet
- quartett
- quartte
- quarttet
- quatret
- quratet
- uqartet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quartet - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quartet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).