quatrain
French, noun/ka.tʁɛ̃/
quatrain is spelled Q-U-A-T-R-A-I-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,020th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quatrain is a French masculine noun meaning “quatrain (stanza of four lines)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce de poésie qui contient quatre vers, dont les rimes sont ordinairement croisées”.
What does quatrain mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinequatrain (stanza of four lines)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pièce de poésie qui contient quatre vers, dont les rimes sont ordinairement croisées. 2. Quatre vers qui font partie d’un sonnet, d’une stance, etc.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of quatrain
- quatrains plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quatrain?
- /ka.tʁɛ̃/
- \ka.tʁɛ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quatrain
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quatrain in French?
quatrain appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).