quartier-maître de première classe
The verdict
“quartier-maître de première classe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 34
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Grade donné à un militaire dans la Marine nationale française, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le second maître, et son subordonné, le quartier-maître de deuxième classe. Ce grade correspon...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quartier-maître de première classe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tje.mɛ.tʁə də pʁə.mjɛʁ klas\ |
| Letters | 34 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quartier-maître de première classe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quartier-maître de première classe is 34 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.tje.mɛ.tʁə də pʁə.mjɛʁ klas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grade donné à un militaire dans la Marine nationale française, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le second maître, et son subordonné, le quartier-maître de deuxième classe. Ce grade correspon...".
No misspelling variants are generated for quartier-maître de première classe 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 de première classe, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R---M-A-Î-T-R-E- -D-E- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -C-L-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grade donné à un militaire dans la Marine nationale française, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le second maître, et son subordonné, le quartier-maître de deuxième classe. Ce grade correspond à celui de caporal-chef dans l’armée de terre française. Le code OTAN : OR-4.
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R---M-A-Î-T-R-E- -D-E- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -C-L-A-S-S-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁ.tje.mɛ.tʁə də pʁə.mjɛʁ klas\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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