quartette
\kwaʁ.tɛt\
The verdict
“quartette” is uncommon French (frequency #90,083 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,083
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morceau de musique écrit pour quatre voix ou pour quatre instruments, plus couramment quatuor.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quartette · quartette · French
quartette · rank #90,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,083
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quartile
Nearest frequency peer: quartile (+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 « quartette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- périphrases
périphrases
9,922 corpus weight
- pétoncles
pétoncles
9,921 corpus weight
- quartette
quartette
9,918 corpus weight
- quartile
quartile
9,917 corpus weight
- queux
queux
9,916 corpus weight
- quien
quien
9,915 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quartette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quartette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwaʁ.tɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quartette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quartette is uncommon French at frequency #90,083 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwaʁ.tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quartette, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is quartette, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Morceau de musique écrit pour quatre voix ou pour quatre instruments, plus couramment quatuor.
- 2Petit orchestre de quatre musiciens, particulièrement en jazz, autrement plus couramment quatuor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quartette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ce n’est que cinq ans plus tard, en 1960, que j’ai intégré le quartette de John.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).