quartier réservé
The verdict
“quartier réservé” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Quartier d’une ville réservé à la prostitution, aux maisons closes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quartier réservé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tje ʁe.zɛʁ.ve\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quartier réservé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quartier réservé is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.tje ʁe.zɛʁ.ve\. 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: "Quartier d’une ville réservé à la prostitution, aux maisons closes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quartier réservé 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 réservé, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R- -R-É-S-E-R-V-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quartier d’une ville réservé à la prostitution, aux maisons closes.
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Using “quartier réservé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R- -R-É-S-E-R-V-É — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁ.tje ʁe.zɛʁ.ve\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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