parquet

\paʁ.kɛ\

/\paʁ.kɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“parquet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,688. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,688
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enclos pour parquer, volailles, moutons, veaux, etc., ou pour diviser en compartiments un vaste pâturage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-parquet · parquet · French

parquet · rank #5,688 · 10 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,688
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pacte

Nearest frequency peer: pacte (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « parquet »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « parquet » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

parquet vs parue
71% similar
parquet vs piquet
71% similar
parquet vs parues
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parquet »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.parquetse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pacte » (#5,687), « perspectives » (#5,689), « oxygène » (#5,686). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « parquet » est au #5,688. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around parquet (IPA \paʁ.kɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,688 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for parquet, with forms such as "aprquet", "paqruet", and "parqeut". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is parquet, spelled P-A-R-Q-U-E-T.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how parquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] il avait continué d’être ce qu’il était, sans se charger d’un acte malhonnête, sans se risquer à une crapulerie, par exemple voler des faisans en parquet…
  2. Le parquet de cette glace est trop haut pour l’appartement, il faut le raccourcir.

Synonyms

vindicte

This word in other languages

parquet(English)Parkett(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aprquet
  • paqruet
  • parqeut
  • parqquet
  • parquett
  • parqute
  • parrquet
  • paruqet
  • pparquet
  • praquet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parquet - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aprquet2paqruet2parqeut2parqquet1parquett1parqute2parrquet1paruqet2
Edit distance from "parquet"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parquet", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

oxygène#5,686ouvrier#5,685regards#5,698Mohamed#5,677

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

occupent10 variantsgrossesse10 variantsfichier10 variantsWilliams10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list