quatrième de couverture
The verdict
“quatrième de couverture” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dernière page extérieure d’un livre, où apparaissent généralement une introduction à (ou un extrait du contenu de) l’ouvrage ainsi qu’une très brève présentation de son auteur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quatrième de couverture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tʁi.jɛm də ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quatrième de couverture” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quatrième de couverture is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.tʁi.jɛm də ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dernière page extérieure d’un livre, où apparaissent généralement une introduction à (ou un extrait du contenu de) l’ouvrage ainsi qu’une très brève présentation de son auteur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quatrième de couverture in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is quatrième de couverture, spelled Q-U-A-T-R-I-È-M-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-V-E-R-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dernière page extérieure d’un livre, où apparaissent généralement une introduction à (ou un extrait du contenu de) l’ouvrage ainsi qu’une très brève présentation de son auteur.
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-T-R-I-È-M-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-V-E-R-T-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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