parquet
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,688
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
parquet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enclos pour parquer, volailles, moutons, veaux, etc., ou pour diviser en compartiments un vaste pâturage. Pronounced \paʁ.kɛ\. It ranks #5,688 in French word frequency. Often confused with parue and piquet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parquet is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.kɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,688 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for parquet, with forms such as "aprquet", "paqruet", and "parqeut". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "parue", "piquet", "parues", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is parquet, spelled P-A-R-Q-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enclos pour parquer, volailles, moutons, veaux, etc., ou pour diviser en compartiments un vaste pâturage.
- 2Assemblage de bois, bordure d’encadrement.
- 3Assemblage fait de minces planches clouées sur des lambourdes et qui forme le plancher d’une salle, d’une pièce, etc.
- 4Piste couverte pour danser.
- 5Espace limité par les sièges des juges et par le barreau où sont les avocats.
- 6Lieu où se tiennent, en dehors des audiences, les magistrats du ministère public.
- 7Ministère public, par opposition aux magistrats du siège.
- 8Parquet européen, une institution de l'union européenne, indépendante.
- 9Enceinte d’une bourse où se réunissent les agents de change pour faire constater le cours des valeurs.
- 10Peuplement d’une surface comprise entre 0,5 et 1 hectare.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprquet,paqruet,parqeut,parqquet,parquett,parqute,parrquet,paruqet,pparquet,praquet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parquet
Misspelling Variants of "parquet"
Frequency rank: #5,688 in French
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