quatrième âge
\ka.tʁi.jɛ.m‿ɑʒ\
The verdict
“quatrième âge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des personnes très âgées, souvent dépendantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quatrieme-age · quatrième âge · French
quatrième âge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | quatrième âge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tʁi.jɛ.m‿ɑʒ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quatrième âge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quatrième âge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.tʁi.jɛ.m‿ɑʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ensemble des personnes très âgées, souvent dépendantes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quatrième âge, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is quatrième âge, spelled Q-U-A-T-R-I-È-M-E- -Â-G-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des personnes très âgées, souvent dépendantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quatrième âge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plusieurs auteurs (dont, par exemple, Manton, Stallard et Liu, 1993) associent la notion de quatrième âge – ou son équivalent anglophone « oldest-old » – à l’ensemble des vieillards dits dépendants, c’est-à-dire présentant des incapacités fonctionnelles lourdes.
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.