quatre-chemins
\katʁ.ʃə.mɛ̃\
The verdict
“quatre-chemins” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Carrefour, endroits où se croisent plusieurs rues.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quatre-chemins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \katʁ.ʃə.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quatre-chemins” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quatre-chemins is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \katʁ.ʃə.mɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Carrefour, endroits où se croisent plusieurs rues.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quatre-chemins, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is quatre-chemins, spelled Q-U-A-T-R-E---C-H-E-M-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Carrefour, endroits où se croisent plusieurs rues.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “quatre-chemins”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-T-R-E---C-H-E-M-I-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.