quatre-vingt-dix
\ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.dis\
The verdict
“quatre-vingt-dix” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatre-vingt-neuf plus un, soit neuf fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 90.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quatre-vingt-dix · quatre-vingt-dix · French
quatre-vingt-dix · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quatre-vingt-dix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.dis\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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quatre-vingt-dix is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.dis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
quatre-vingt-dix has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is quatre-vingt-dix, spelled Q-U-A-T-R-E---V-I-N-G-T---D-I-X.
Definition
- 1Quatre-vingt-neuf plus un, soit neuf fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 90.
- 2Quatre-vingt-dixième, 90ᵉ.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quatre-vingt-dix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quoique en général les créanciers soient trompés, volés, dindonnés, attrapés, turlupinés, bafoués et joués, il n’existe pas à Paris de passion commerciale qui vive quatre-vingt-dix jours.
Il entrait en qualité de « fait-diversier » dans un quotidien de Marseille, moyennant quatre-vingt-dix francs par mois.
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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.