quartier-maître
\kaʁ.tje.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“quartier-maître” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quartier-maitre · quartier-maître · French
quartier-maître · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « quartier-maître » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quartier-maître is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.tje.mɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
quartier-maître has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is quartier-maître, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R---M-A-Î-T-R-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quartier-maître appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quartier-maître d’un régiment de dragons d’un régiment d’infanterie, etc. Quartier-maître trésorier.
Son mari, ancien quartier-maître dans la garde impériale, grièvement blessé à Austerlitz et retraité, conservait, malgré sa considération pour Grandet, l’apparente franchise des militaires.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.