parquet

/\paʁ.kɛ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for parquet
PropertyValue
Headwordparquet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\paʁ.kɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,688
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of parquet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Enclos pour parquer, volailles, moutons, veaux, etc., ou pour diviser en compartiments un vaste pâturage.
  2. 2
    Assemblage de bois, bordure d’encadrement.
  3. 3
    Assemblage fait de minces planches clouées sur des lambourdes et qui forme le plancher d’une salle, d’une pièce, etc.
  4. 4
    Piste couverte pour danser.
  5. 5
    Espace limité par les sièges des juges et par le barreau où sont les avocats.
  6. 6
    Lieu où se tiennent, en dehors des audiences, les magistrats du ministère public.
  7. 7
    Ministère public, par opposition aux magistrats du siège.
  8. 8
    Parquet européen, une institution de l'union européenne, indépendante.
  9. 9
    Enceinte d’une bourse où se réunissent les agents de change pour faire constater le cours des valeurs.
  10. 10
    Peuplement d’une surface comprise entre 0,5 et 1 hectare.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

aprquet7paqruet7parqeut7parqquet8parquett8parqute7parrquet8paruqet7
Misspelling Variants of "parquet"

Frequency rank: #5,688 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parquet"?
"parquet" is spelled P-A-R-Q-U-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ.kɛ\.
What does "parquet" mean?
As a noun, "parquet" means: Enclos pour parquer, volailles, moutons, veaux, etc., ou pour diviser en compartiments un vaste pâturage.
What words are commonly confused with "parquet"?
"parquet" is commonly confused with "parue", "piquet", "parues". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "parquet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parquet" is \paʁ.kɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parquet" come from?
"parquet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.