lance-roquettes
\lɑ̃s.ʁɔ.kɛt\
The verdict
“lance-roquettes” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante, dans l’orthographe traditionnelle, de lance-roquette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lance-roquettes · lance-roquettes · French
lance-roquettes · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lance-roquettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃s.ʁɔ.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
lance-roquettes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃s.ʁɔ.kɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante, dans l’orthographe traditionnelle, de lance-roquette.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lance-roquettes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lance-roquettes, spelled L-A-N-C-E---R-O-Q-U-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Variante, dans l’orthographe traditionnelle, de lance-roquette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lance-roquettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le commandant fit alors appel à la division et réclama un lance-roquettes à infra-rouges.
Mais la guerre mondiale qui se déroulait alors sanctionnait sans appel les jugements erronés, si bien que le lance-roquettes, introduit en 1945, fut très vite estimé à sa juste valeur : il dopait le moral des fantassins qu’on avait vu fuir à l’approche des blindés
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.