requin
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,907
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
requin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de poisson de mer prédateur de la classe des chondrichthyens (Chondrichthyens), à la silhouette fuselée, hydrodynamique, ayant plusieurs rangées de dents tranchantes à chacune des 2 mâchoire... Pronounced \ʁə.kɛ̃\. It ranks #9,907 in French word frequency. Often confused with requis and return.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | requin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for requin is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,907 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for requin, with forms such as "erquin", "reqiun", and "reqquin". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "requis", "return", "requins", 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 requin, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de poisson de mer prédateur de la classe des chondrichthyens (Chondrichthyens), à la silhouette fuselée, hydrodynamique, ayant plusieurs rangées de dents tranchantes à chacune des 2 mâchoires, une nageoire dorsale, deux pectorales, et une nageoire caudale hétérocerque (asymétrique), ayant cinq à sept fentes branchiales sur le côté, et une peau rugueuse (denticules dermiques).
- 2La chair d'un de ces animaux pour l'alimentation humaine.
- 3Personne avide et cupide qui réussit dans les affaires.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erquin,reqiun,reqquin,requinn,requni,reuqin,rqeuin,rrequin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "requin"
Frequency rank: #9,907 in French
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