quartier

/\kaʁ.tje\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#986

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

quartier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Quart, une des quatre parties plus ou moins égales d'un tout. Pronounced \kaʁ.tje\. It ranks #986 in French word frequency. Often confused with quartiers and quartet.

Key facts for quartier
PropertyValue
Headwordquartier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaʁ.tje\
Letters8
Frequency rank#986
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of quartier in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for quartier is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.tje\. Corpus data places it at rank #986 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for quartier, with forms such as "qaurtier", "qquartier", and "quariter". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "quartiers", "quartet", "quarter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is quartier, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quart, une des quatre parties plus ou moins égales d'un tout.
  2. 2
    Partie d'un corps supplicié par écartèlement.
  3. 3
    Division de certains fruits.
  4. 4
    Bois fendu.
  5. 5
    Partie importante d'un tout.
  6. 6
    Contrée ; pays.
  7. 7
    Partie d'une ville ayant une personnalité, une physionomie propre, une certaine unité.
  8. 8
    Quartier à problèmes, mal fréquenté.
  9. 9
    Hameau, petite localité à l'écart du bourg principal d'une commune.
  10. 10
    Phase de la lune.
  11. 11
    Division d'un écu écartelé.
  12. 12
    Division d'un écu écartelé.
  13. 13
    Division d'un écu écartelé.
  14. 14
    Division d'un écu écartelé.
  15. 15
    Caserne, lieu de cantonnement des troupes.
  16. 16
    Caserne, lieu de cantonnement des troupes.
  17. 17
    Partie du soulier qui couvre le talon lorsqu’on est chaussé, et à laquelle sont attachées les oreilles qui servent à attacher la boucle.
  18. 18
    Quart d'une année ; trimestre.
  19. 19
    Salaire ou émolument versé trimestriellement.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: qaurtier,qquartier,quariter,quarrtier,quarteir,quartierr,quartire,quarttier,quatrier,quratier,uqartier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quartier

Misspelling Variants of "quartier"

qaurtier8qquartier9quariter8quarrtier9quarteir8quartierr9quartire8quarttier9
Misspelling Variants of "quartier"

Frequency rank: #986 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quartier"?
"quartier" is spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʁ.tje\.
What does "quartier" mean?
As a noun, "quartier" means: Quart, une des quatre parties plus ou moins égales d'un tout.
What words are commonly confused with "quartier"?
"quartier" is commonly confused with "quartiers", "quartet", "quarter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "quartier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quartier" is \kaʁ.tje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quartier" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.