quatres
\ka.tʁəz\
The verdict
“quatres” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,856
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de quatre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quatres · quatres · French
quatres · rank #33,856 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,856
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quittons
Nearest frequency peer: quittons (+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 « quatres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prêteurs
prêteurs
66,149 corpus weight
- prêtée
prêtée
66,148 corpus weight
- quatres
quatres
66,145 corpus weight
- quittons
quittons
66,144 corpus weight
- Raffarin
Raffarin
66,143 corpus weight
- raj
raj
66,142 corpus weight
What this shows « quatres » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quatres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.tʁəz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quatres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around quatres (IPA \ka.tʁəz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,856 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de quatre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for quatres, with forms such as "qautres", "qquatres", and "quartes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "quêtes", "quittés", "quatre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 quatres, spelled Q-U-A-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de quatre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quatres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mademoiselle Sabine, jolie brune, se trouva très-flattée de la recherche du comte, et consentit tout-à-fait volontiers à lui accorder de secrets rendez-vous pour se laisser admirer entre quatres yeux.
Ah ! gredin de démocrate, s’ils te tenaient, non pas entre quatres yeux, mais au milieu de cinquante mille baïonnettes, […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qautres
- qquatres
- quartes
- quaters
- quatress
- quatrres
- quatrse
- quattres
- qutares
- uqatres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quatres - 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.
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 "quatres"?
What does "quatres" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "quatres"?
How do you pronounce "quatres"?
What language does "quatres" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quatres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).