requête

\ʁə.kɛt\

/\ʁə.kɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“requête” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,021
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Demande écrite ou verbale ; prière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-requete · requête · French

requête · rank #6,021 · 10 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,021
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rejet

Nearest frequency peer: rejet (-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 « requête »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « requête » 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).

requête vs requise
71% similar
requête vs résulté
43% similar
requête vs requêtes
88% similar

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

Key facts for requête
PropertyValue
Headwordrequête
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.kɛt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,021
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « requête »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).requêtese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rejet » (#6,020), « ressemblent » (#6,022), « regardent » (#6,019). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « requête » est au #6,021. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around requête (IPA \ʁə.kɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,021 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for requête, with forms such as "erquête", "reqquête", and "requete". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "requise", "résulté", "requêtes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is requête, spelled R-E-Q-U-Ê-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Demande écrite ou verbale ; prière.
  2. 2
    Demande par écrit, présentée à qui de droit et selon certaines formes établies.
  3. 3
    Nouvelle quête que l’on fait de la bête quand on est en défaut ou qu’on a perdu la voie.
  4. 4
    Recherche dans une base de donnée.
  5. 5
    Message initial envoyé par le client vers le serveur. Le message du serveur étant la réponse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ayez égard à la requête que je vous fais.
  2. Il a fait cela à la requête d’un tel.

This word in other languages

request(English)petición(Español)Antrag(Deutsch)diligência(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erquête
  • reqquête
  • requete
  • requtêe
  • requêet
  • requêtte
  • reqêute
  • reuqête
  • rqeuête
  • rrequête

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of requête - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

erquête2reqquête1requete1requtêe2requêet2requêtte1reqêute2reuqête2
Edit distance from "requête"

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 "requête"?
"requête" is spelled R-E-Q-U-Ê-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.kɛt\.
What does "requête" mean?
As a noun, "requête" means: Demande écrite ou verbale ; prière.
What words are commonly confused with "requête"?
"requête" is commonly confused with "requise", "résulté", "requêtes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "requête"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "requête" is \ʁə.kɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "requête" come from?
"requête" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

radical#6,017prêtres#6,015révéler#6,027secrète#6,030

Similar misspelling depth

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

suédois10 variantstrouvée10 variantstypique10 variantsvivante10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list