quereller
\kə.ʁe.le\
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
- péplum
péplum
31,413 corpus weight
- Pétion
Pétion
31,412 corpus weight
- pêchers
pêchers
31,411 corpus weight
- quereller
quereller
31,408 corpus weight
- quérir
quérir
31,407 corpus weight
- rampent
rampent
31,404 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quereller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quereller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kə.ʁe.le\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quereller » en français
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
- 1Chercher querelle à quelqu’un.
- 2Gronder, réprimander.
- 3Chercher querelle.
- 4Se disputer avec des paroles aigres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quereller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est venu nous quereller sans raison.
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.
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