quatrième
\ka.tʁi.jɛm\
The verdict
“quatrième” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,751. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,751
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adjectif ordinal correspondant au nombre quatre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quatrieme · quatrième · French
quatrième · rank #1,751 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,751
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH parles
Nearest frequency peer: parles (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “quatrième”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- notes
notes
98,254 corpus weight
- oublie
oublie
98,253 corpus weight
- parles
parles
98,251 corpus weight
- quatrième
quatrième
98,250 corpus weight
- quitte
quitte
98,249 corpus weight
- réduire
réduire
98,247 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “quatrième” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | quatrième |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.tʁi.jɛm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “quatrième” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around quatrième (IPA \ka.tʁi.jɛm\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,751 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for quatrième, with forms such as "qautrième", "qquatrième", and "quartième". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "quatrièmes", "quatorzième", "4e", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is quatrième, spelled Q-U-A-T-R-I-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Adjectif ordinal correspondant au nombre quatre.
- 2(Lui quatrième, elle quatrième ou en quatrième) Avec trois autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quatrième appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons déjà dit que les analystes ne sont parvenus jusqu'à présent qu'à la résolution des équations générales du troisième et du quatrième degrés.
Certes, personne ne vous demande de transiger sur les principes, et le catéchisme d’aucun diocèse n’a rien changé, que je sache, au quatrième commandement.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qautrième
- qquatrième
- quartième
- quatirème
- quatrieme
- quatrimèe
- quatrièem
- quatrièmme
- quatrrième
- quatrèime
- quattrième
- qutarième
- uqatrième
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quatrième - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quatrième", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "quatrième" maps to 3 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "quatrièmes". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,751 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "Q" letter cohort. Q–Z browse
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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.