requête
\ʁə.kɛt\
The verdict
“requête” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,021 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,021
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Demande écrite ou verbale ; prière.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | requête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “requête” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for requête is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,021 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1Demande écrite ou verbale ; prière.
- 2Demande par écrit, présentée à qui de droit et selon certaines formes établies.
- 3Nouvelle quête que l’on fait de la bête quand on est en défaut ou qu’on a perdu la voie.
- 4Recherche dans une base de donnée.
- 5Message initial envoyé par le client vers le serveur. Le message du serveur étant la réponse.
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “requête”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-Q-U-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.kɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “requise” - see the side-by-side comparison. requête vs requise
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.