raquette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,256
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
raquette is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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 ... Pronounced \ʁa.kɛt\. Often confused with requête and roquette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for raquette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,256 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for raquette, with forms such as "arquette", "raqeutte", and "raqquette". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "requête", "roquette", "roquettes", 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 raquette, spelled R-A-Q-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument 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.
- 2Personne qui pratique un sport nécessitant une raquette.
- 3Instrument composé d'un manche court et d'une palette ronde et pleine servant à frapper une balle
- 4Raquette à neige.
- 5Synonyme de palette; longue rectrice ou (plus rarement) rémige dont les barbes ne subsistent qu'à l'extrémité distale du rachis, formant souvent ainsi des motifs ornementaux, fréquemment avec fonction de caractères sexuels secondaires chez le mâle (e.g. momotidés, trochilidés, psittaciformes, etc.).
- 6Nom vulgaire des Opuntia, plantes de la famille des Cactaceae, dont la tige est formée de parties ovales et aplaties qui se joignent par des articulations.
- 7Partie du terrain de basketball située sous le panier, et représentée par les lignes dont le contour forme un tronc de cône.
- 8Raquette de départ.
- 9Morceau de bœuf qui correspond à l'épaule.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arquette,raqeutte,raqquette,raquete,raquetet,raqutete,rauqette,rqauette,rraquette
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Misspelling Variants of "raquette"
Frequency rank: #20,256 in French
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