quatre fleurs

/\ka.tʁə flœʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“quatre fleurs” 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
13
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Fleurs de mauve, de pied-de-chat, de pas-d’âne et de coquelicot, dont on fait une tisane pectorale.

Key facts for quatre fleurs
PropertyValue
Headwordquatre fleurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.tʁə flœʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “quatre fleurs” sits in French frequency

quatre fleurs falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for quatre fleurs is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.tʁə flœʁ\. 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: "Fleurs de mauve, de pied-de-chat, de pas-d’âne et de coquelicot, dont on fait une tisane pectorale.".

No misspelling variants are generated for quatre fleurs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 quatre fleurs, spelled Q-U-A-T-R-E- -F-L-E-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fleurs de mauve, de pied-de-chat, de pas-d’âne et de coquelicot, dont on fait une tisane pectorale.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quatre fleurs"?
"quatre fleurs" is spelled Q-U-A-T-R-E- -F-L-E-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.tʁə flœʁ\.
What does "quatre fleurs" mean?
As a noun, "quatre fleurs" means: Fleurs de mauve, de pied-de-chat, de pas-d’âne et de coquelicot, dont on fait une tisane pectorale.
How do you pronounce "quatre fleurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quatre fleurs" is \ka.tʁə flœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quatre fleurs" come from?
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Using “quatre fleurs”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-T-R-E- -F-L-E-U-R-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ka.tʁə flœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.

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

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