quarto
\kwaʁ.to\
The verdict
“quarto” is uncommon French (frequency #56,848 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,848
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatrièmement, en quatrième lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quarto · quarto · French
quarto · rank #56,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,848
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH Quark
Nearest frequency peer: Quark (-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 « quarto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- psychoses
psychoses
43,156 corpus weight
- péridurale
péridurale
43,155 corpus weight
- Quark
Quark
43,154 corpus weight
- quarto
quarto
43,153 corpus weight
- quiet
quiet
43,152 corpus weight
- Quinet
Quinet
43,151 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quarto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kwaʁ.to\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quarto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quarto is uncommon French at frequency #56,848 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kwaʁ.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quatrièmement, en quatrième lieu.".
quarto has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quarto, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-O.
Definition
- 1Quatrièmement, en quatrième lieu.
This word in other languages
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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