requiert
\ʁə.kjɛʁ\
The verdict
“requiert” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,121
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de requérir.
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 | requiert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “requiert” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around requiert (IPA \ʁə.kjɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,121 among 507,453 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de requérir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for requiert, with forms such as "erquiert", "reqiuert", and "reqquiert". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Ruquier", "requiem", "requièrent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is requiert, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de requérir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erquiert
- reqiuert
- reqquiert
- requeirt
- requierrt
- requiertt
- requietr
- requiret
- reuqiert
- rqeuiert
- rrequiert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of requiert - 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 “requiert”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-Q-U-I-E-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.kjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Ruquier” - see the side-by-side comparison. requiert vs Ruquier
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
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.