quartile

\kwaʁ.til\

/\kwaʁ.til\/ noun

The verdict

“quartile” is uncommon French (frequency #90,084 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,084
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chacune des trois valeurs qui divisent une distribution statistique ordonnée en quatre groupes d’effectifs égaux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quartile · quartile · French

quartile · rank #90,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,084
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH quartette

Nearest frequency peer: quartette (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « quartile »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quartile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for quartile
PropertyValue
Headwordquartile
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kwaʁ.til\
Letters8
Frequency rank#90,084
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « quartile » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.quartiletombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « quartette » (#90,083), « queux » (#90,085), « quien » (#90,086). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quartile » est au #90,084. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

quartile is uncommon French at frequency #90,084 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwaʁ.til\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quartile, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is quartile, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chacune des trois valeurs qui divisent une distribution statistique ordonnée en quatre groupes d’effectifs égaux.
  2. 2
    L’un des quatre ensembles de données situés entre ces quatre valeurs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Ainsi, à la différence de l’analyse par quartiles, il est possible avec cette méthode de mettre en évidence le lien entre les situations et les scénarii en tenant compte des interrelations.

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 "quartile"?
"quartile" is spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kwaʁ.til\.
What does "quartile" mean?
As a noun, "quartile" means: Chacune des trois valeurs qui divisent une distribution statistique ordonnée en quatre groupes d’effectifs égaux.
How do you pronounce "quartile"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quartile" is \kwaʁ.til\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quartile" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list