racchetta
The verdict
“racchetta” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Raquette, instrument dont on se sert pour jouer à la paume, au volant ou au tennis, et qui est fait d’un filet de cordes à boyau, tendues en long et en travers sur un cadre de bois recourbé en oval...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | racchetta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \rak.ˈket.ta\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “racchetta” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for racchetta is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \rak.ˈket.ta\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for racchetta in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 racchetta, spelled R-A-C-C-H-E-T-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Raquette, instrument dont on se sert pour jouer à la paume, au volant ou au tennis, et qui est fait d’un filet de cordes à boyau, tendues en long et en travers sur un cadre de bois recourbé en ovale et muni d’un manche.
- 2Raquette, instrument composé d'un manche court et d'une palette ronde et pleine servant à frapper une balle.
- 3Raquette à neige, chaussure en forme de raquette qui permet de se déplacer sur la neige sans s’y enfoncer, utilisée traditionnellement en Amérique du Nord et en Sibérie orientale.
- 4Nom de la rondelle évitant au bâton de ski de s’enfoncer.
- 5Bâton de ski, tige de bois ou de métal munie, le plus souvent, d’une poignée et d’une rondelle et servant d’appui à un skieur.
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Using “racchetta”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-C-C-H-E-T-T-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \rak.ˈket.ta\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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