quatre

\katʁ\

/\katʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“quatre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#320
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trois plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 4.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quatre · quatre · French

quatre · rank #320 · 8 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #320
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH pourrait

Nearest frequency peer: pourrait (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quatre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « quatre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

quatre vs quête
67% similar
quatre vs quote
67% similar
quatre vs quite
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for quatre
PropertyValue
Headwordquatre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\katʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#320
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quatre »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).quatrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pourrait » (#319), « semaine » (#321), « passé » (#318). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quatre » est au #320. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around quatre (IPA \katʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #320 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for quatre, with forms such as "qautre", "qquatre", and "quarte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "quête", "quote", "quite", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is quatre, spelled Q-U-A-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Trois plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 4.
  2. 2
    Quatrième.
  3. 3
    Nombre indéterminé, mais très petit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how quatre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Enfin, un brin de trèfle à quatre feuilles suffit, non-seulement pour nous mettre à l’abri de toute espèce de sorts, mais encore pour nous attirer toute sorte de bonheurs et nous procurer l’accomplissement de tous nos désirs.
  2. En conséquence , on dit simplement une noire vaut deux croches ou quatre doubles-croches , ou huit triples-croches, ou seize quadruples-croches.

This word in other languages

four(English)cuatro(Español)vier(Deutsch)quatro(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • qautre
  • qquatre
  • quarte
  • quater
  • quatrre
  • quattre
  • qutare
  • uqatre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quatre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

qautre2qquatre1quarte2quater2quatrre1quattre1qutare2uqatre2
Edit distance from "quatre"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quatre"?
"quatre" is spelled Q-U-A-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \katʁ\.
What does "quatre" mean?
As an adjective, "quatre" means: Trois plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 4.
What words are commonly confused with "quatre"?
"quatre" is commonly confused with "quête", "quote", "quite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "quatre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quatre" is \katʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quatre" come from?
"quatre" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quatre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

niveau#317accord#324guerre#316donner#327

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

autant8 variantsdébut8 variantscentre8 variantsheures8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list