quartiers

\kaʁ.tje\

/\kaʁ.tje\/ noun

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The verdict

“quartiers” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,445. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,445
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Endroit où l’on est installé ou établi.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quartiers · quartiers · French

quartiers · rank #2,445 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,445
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH puissant

Nearest frequency peer: puissant (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quartiers »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « quartiers » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

quartiers vs quarter
78% similar
quartiers vs quartier
89% similar
quartiers vs cartier
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for quartiers
PropertyValue
Headwordquartiers
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaʁ.tje\
Letters9
Frequency rank#2,445
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quartiers »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).quartiersse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « puissant » (#2,444), « représentants » (#2,446), « prouver » (#2,443). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quartiers » est au #2,445. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around quartiers (IPA \kaʁ.tje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,445 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Endroit où l’on est installé ou établi.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for quartiers, with forms such as "qaurtiers", "qquartiers", and "quariters". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "quarter", "quartier", "cartier", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is quartiers, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Endroit où l’on est installé ou établi.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how quartiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Déjà sans doute, sur les hauteurs, les bêtes libres, en quête de terriers plus chauds, avaient changé de quartiers.
  2. Le 2 juin 1791, jeudi de l’Ascension, son hôtel accueille à nouveau vingt-cinq convives à dîner. Pierre-Victor se sent peu bien, il reste dans ses quartiers, laissant à son fils Joseph-Alexandre de Ségur et sa chère Madame de la Suze le soin de mener la soirée.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • qaurtiers
  • qquartiers
  • quariters
  • quarrtiers
  • quarteirs
  • quartierrs
  • quartierss
  • quartiesr
  • quartires
  • quarttiers
  • quatriers
  • quratiers
  • uqartiers

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quartiers - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

qaurtiers2qquartiers1quariters2quarrtiers1quarteirs2quartierrs1quartierss1quartiesr2
Edit distance from "quartiers"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quartiers"?
"quartiers" is spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʁ.tje\.
What does "quartiers" mean?
As a noun, "quartiers" means: Endroit où l’on est installé ou établi.
What words are commonly confused with "quartiers"?
"quartiers" is commonly confused with "quarter", "quartier", "cartier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "quartiers"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quartiers" is \kaʁ.tje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quartiers" come from?
"quartiers" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quartiers", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

princesse#2,441réfléchir#2,451organisme#2,437ministres#2,433

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

équilibre13 variantsjudiciaire13 variantscondamné13 variantspersonnelle13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list