request
\ɹɪˈkwɛst\
The verdict
“request” is uncommon French (frequency #51,089 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,089
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Requête, demande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-request · request · French
request · rank #51,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,089
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reprenaient
Nearest frequency peer: reprenaient (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « request »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repens
repens
48,915 corpus weight
- reprenaient
reprenaient
48,913 corpus weight
- request
request
48,912 corpus weight
- resource
resource
48,911 corpus weight
- ressaisis
ressaisis
48,910 corpus weight
- ressurgir
ressurgir
48,909 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « request » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | request |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹɪˈkwɛst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « request » en français
Rare enough to double-check
request is uncommon French at frequency #51,089 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɹɪˈkwɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Requête, demande.".
request doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is request, spelled R-E-Q-U-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Requête, demande.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).