quater
\kwa.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“quater” is uncommon French (frequency #84,209 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,209
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une quatrième fois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quater · quater · French
quater · rank #84,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,209
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH qualifiez
Nearest frequency peer: qualifiez (-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 « quater »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- puez
puez
15,797 corpus weight
- Péruwelz
Péruwelz
15,796 corpus weight
- qualifiaient
qualifiaient
15,794 corpus weight
- qualifiez
qualifiez
15,793 corpus weight
- quater
quater
15,792 corpus weight
- raccordées
raccordées
15,788 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quater » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quater |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kwa.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quater » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quater is uncommon French at frequency #84,209 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kwa.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quater, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quater, spelled Q-U-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Une quatrième fois.
- 2Indique les passages d’une chanson qui doivent être répétés quatre fois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Articles 34 bis, 38 bis, 38 ter et 38 quater.
Le 10, le 10 bis, le 10 ter et le 10 quater.
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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