racketter

\ʁa.kɛ.te\

/\ʁa.kɛ.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“racketter” is uncommon French (frequency #61,074 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,074
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exercer un chantage, menacer de violences dans le but d’extorquer de l’argent, des objets, des renseignements ou un comportement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-racketter · racketter · French

racketter · rank #61,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,074
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH péripétie

Nearest frequency peer: péripétie (-2 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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « racketter »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « racketter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for racketter
PropertyValue
Headwordracketter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁa.kɛ.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#61,074
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « racketter » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).rackettertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « péripétie » (#61,072), « rassemblaient » (#61,076), « pérennisation » (#61,071). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « racketter » est au #61,074. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

racketter is uncommon French at frequency #61,074 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.kɛ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exercer un chantage, menacer de violences dans le but d’extorquer de l’argent, des objets, des renseignements ou un comportement.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for racketter, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is racketter, spelled R-A-C-K-E-T-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Exercer un chantage, menacer de violences dans le but d’extorquer de l’argent, des objets, des renseignements ou un comportement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Que les politiques cessent de racketter les entreprises est un strict minimum, qu’ils fassent ce qu’ils annoncent, qu’ils disent ce qu’ils croient, etc.
  2. Le maître chanteur est d'abord un maître séducteur. Il chante le temps qu'il faut. Il berce le temps qu'il faut. … Lorsque sa toile est tissée, lorsque sa victime n'a plus la ressource de s'en échapper par quelque issue, il passera à la seconde étape : il vous accusera, il vous menacera, vous et les vôtres, et il vous couvrira de honte, et il vous rackett…

This word in other languages

racketeer(English)erpressen(Deutsch)

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 "racketter"?
"racketter" is spelled R-A-C-K-E-T-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.kɛ.te\.
What does "racketter" mean?
As a verb, "racketter" means: Exercer un chantage, menacer de violences dans le but d’extorquer de l’argent, des objets, des renseignements ou un comportement.
How do you pronounce "racketter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "racketter" is \ʁa.kɛ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

péripétie#61,072punitives#61,068remerciée#61,084remportez#61,086

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list