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racket

/ˈɹækɪt/noun, verb

racket is spelled R-A-C-K-E-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “racket vs racquet” about 1,000 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, racket means “An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of racket is rackets.

How many letters and syllables are in racket?

Letters6: R-A-C-K-E-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is racket?

Racket appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce racket?

  • /ˈɹækɪt/

Racket has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-racket.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with racket

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

racket vs racquet1,000 G

Also written: racquet.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with racket?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as racket.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: tacker.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of racket

  • rackets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • racquet
  • racketeering
  • racketing participle, present
  • racketed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does racket mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a shuttlecock in badminton.

    He bought a new tennis racket two days ago.

  2. 2

    CanadaA snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.

  3. 3

    A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

  4. 4

    A loud noise.

    Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.

  5. 5

    An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.

    prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets

  6. 6

    informalAny industry or enterprise.

  7. 7

    datedslangA carouse; any reckless dissipation.

  8. 8

    datedslangSomething taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

verb

  1. 1

    To strike with, or as if with, a racket.

  2. 2

    To make a clattering noise.

  3. 3

    datedTo be dissipated; to carouse.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Racket in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchraquette (implement), vacarme, tintamarre, boucan (loud noise), escroquerie (fraud)
GermanSchläger, Racket (implement), Lärm, Krach, Radau (loud noise), Betrugssystem (fraud)
Portugueseraquete (implement), algazarra (loud noise), extorsão, fraude (fraud)
Spanishraqueta (implement), estruendo, estrépito, fragor, algarabía, barullo (loud noise)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does racket come from?

From Middle English raket, of uncertain origin. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). From Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”). Alternatively, the term might be derived from Dutch raketsen instead, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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