quartile
\kwaʁ.til\
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
- pétoncles
pétoncles
9,921 corpus weight
- quartette
quartette
9,918 corpus weight
- quartile
quartile
9,917 corpus weight
- queux
queux
9,916 corpus weight
- quien
quien
9,915 corpus weight
- quinconces
quinconces
9,914 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quartile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quartile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwaʁ.til\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quartile » en français
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
- 1Chacune des trois valeurs qui divisent une distribution statistique ordonnée en quatre groupes d’effectifs égaux.
- 2L’un des quatre ensembles de données situés entre ces quatre valeurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quartile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).