quatrième art
\ka.tʁi.jɛ.m‿aʁ\
The verdict
“quatrième art” 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) - La musique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quatrieme-art · quatrième art · French
quatrième art · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 art |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tʁi.jɛ.m‿aʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
quatrième art is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.tʁi.jɛ.m‿aʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quatrième art, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 quatrième art, spelled Q-U-A-T-R-I-È-M-E- -A-R-T.
Definition
- 1La musique.
- 2Le théâtre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quatrième art appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans cette version, c’est le potentiel dionysiaque du quatrième art qui se trouve mobilisé. Le théâtre-dialogue gage sur l’écoute attentive […]
Synonyms
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.