quatuors
\kwa.tɥɔʁ\
The verdict
“quatuors” is uncommon French (frequency #51,686 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,686
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de quatuor.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quatuors · quatuors · French
quatuors · rank #51,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,686
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quasimodo
Nearest frequency peer: quasimodo (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « quatuors »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pump
pump
48,319 corpus weight
- périphéries
périphéries
48,318 corpus weight
- quarantième
quarantième
48,317 corpus weight
- quasimodo
quasimodo
48,316 corpus weight
- quatuors
quatuors
48,315 corpus weight
- quin
quin
48,314 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quatuors » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quatuors |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwa.tɥɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quatuors » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quatuors is uncommon French at frequency #51,686 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwa.tɥɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de quatuor.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quatuors, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is quatuors, spelled Q-U-A-T-U-O-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de quatuor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quatuors appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le festival s’achèvera, mercredi, sur un florilège de quatuors avec hautbois au temps de Mozart, interprété par Neven Lesage (hautbois), Louis Creac’h (violon), Camille Rancière (alto) et Gauthier Broutin (violoncelle).
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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