Which to use
“care” and “quart” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,426
- “care” frequency rank
- #2,733
- “quart” frequency rank
- 21159
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | care | quart |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Entaille faite dans le pin pour recueillir la gemme. | Partie d’une unité subdivisée en quatre parties égales. 1/4. |
Same sound, different letters: care vs quart
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 2 letters.
Homophone desk: care vs quart
This is the hard kind. care and quart are pronounced identically (\kaʁ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21159, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
care is recorded at frequency rank #18,426, classified as anoun, pronounced \kaʁ\. quart is at rank #2,733, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kaʁ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 21159, this pair ranks #364,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of care vs quart
Shared letters: ar. Private to "care": ce. Private to "quart": qtu.
"care" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "quart" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "care" / "quart". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "care" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "quart" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #364,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "care" and "quart" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "care vs ciro". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #364,566 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.