quartz
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,985
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
quartz is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce minérale, du groupe des silicates, sous-groupe des tectosilicates composé de dioxyde de silicium de formule SiO₂. Le quartz est le minéral le plus commun. Pronounced \kwaʁts\. Often confused with quant and quart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quartz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwaʁts\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quartz is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kwaʁts\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,985 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for quartz, with forms such as "qaurtz", "qquartz", and "quarrtz". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "quant", "quart", "quarts", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 quartz, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce minérale, du groupe des silicates, sous-groupe des tectosilicates composé de dioxyde de silicium de formule SiO₂. Le quartz est le minéral le plus commun.
- 2Composant dont la propriété est d’osciller à une fréquence stable lorsqu’il est stimulé. Ses propriétés piézoélectriques permettent de coupler ses oscillations mécaniques, dont la fréquence est très stable, à un circuit électronique, ce qui permet de stabiliser la fréquence d’un oscillateur électronique. On peut également réaliser des filtres à partir de ces composants.
- 3Meuble représentant le cristal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est rarement représenté seul, mais plutôt sous forme d’un ensemble posé en faisceau. À rapprocher de diamant, émeraude et rubis.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qaurtz,qquartz,quarrtz,quarttz,quartzz,quarzt,quatrz,quratz,uqartz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quartz
Misspelling Variants of "quartz"
Frequency rank: #15,985 in French
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