quartier-maître
Letters
15 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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quartier-maître is aFrenchnoun. It means: Officier du grade de lieutenant ou de capitaine, chargé de la comptabilité d’un corps de troupes et qui faisait partie de l’état-major. Pronounced \kaʁ.tje.mɛtʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quartier-maître |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tje.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for quartier-maître is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.tje.mɛtʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for quartier-maître in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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-maître, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R---M-A-Î-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Officier du grade de lieutenant ou de capitaine, chargé de la comptabilité d’un corps de troupes et qui faisait partie de l’état-major.
- 2Marin du premier grade au-dessus de matelot, qui correspond à celui de caporal dans l’infanterie.
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