quereller

\kə.ʁe.le\

/\kə.ʁe.le\/ verb

The verdict

“quereller” is uncommon French (frequency #68,593 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,593
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chercher querelle à quelqu’un.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quereller · quereller · French

quereller · rank #68,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,593
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH quérir

Nearest frequency peer: quérir (+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 « quereller »

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 « quereller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for quereller
PropertyValue
Headwordquereller
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kə.ʁe.le\
Letters9
Frequency rank#68,593
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « quereller » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.querellertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « quérir » (#68,594), « pêchers » (#68,590), « Pétion » (#68,589). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quereller » est au #68,593. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

quereller is uncommon French at frequency #68,593 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kə.ʁe.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quereller, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 quereller, spelled Q-U-E-R-E-L-L-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chercher querelle à quelqu’un.
  2. 2
    Gronder, réprimander.
  3. 3
    Chercher querelle.
  4. 4
    Se disputer avec des paroles aigres.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il est venu nous quereller sans raison.
  2. Ne querellez personne.

This word in other languages

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 "quereller"?
"quereller" is spelled Q-U-E-R-E-L-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kə.ʁe.le\.
What does "quereller" mean?
As a verb, "quereller" means: Chercher querelle à quelqu’un.
How do you pronounce "quereller"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quereller" is \kə.ʁe.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quereller" come from?
"quereller" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list