quatuors

\kwa.tɥɔʁ\

/\kwa.tɥɔʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quatuors » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for quatuors
PropertyValue
Headwordquatuors
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kwa.tɥɔʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#51,686
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « quatuors » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).quatuorstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « quasimodo » (#51,685), « quin » (#51,687), « quarantième » (#51,684). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quatuors » est au #51,686. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pluriel de quatuor.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how quatuors appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quatuors"?
"quatuors" is spelled Q-U-A-T-U-O-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kwa.tɥɔʁ\.
What does "quatuors" mean?
As a noun, "quatuors" means: Pluriel de quatuor.
How do you pronounce "quatuors"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quatuors" is \kwa.tɥɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quatuors", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list