requinquer
\ʁə.kɛ̃.ke\
The verdict
“requinquer” is uncommon French (frequency #83,328 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,328
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réparer le désordre de sa toilette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-requinquer · requinquer · French
requinquer · rank #83,328 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,328
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repus
Nearest frequency peer: repus (-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 « requinquer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- replays
replays
16,676 corpus weight
- reprogramma…
reprogrammation
16,675 corpus weight
- repus
repus
16,674 corpus weight
- requinquer
requinquer
16,673 corpus weight
- ressemblante
ressemblante
16,672 corpus weight
- ressouder
ressouder
16,671 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « requinquer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | requinquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɛ̃.ke\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « requinquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
requinquer is uncommon French at frequency #83,328 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.kɛ̃.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for requinquer, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is requinquer, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-N-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Réparer le désordre de sa toilette.
- 2Remonter sa garde-robe.
- 3Redonner une belle apparence, une bonne allure, à quelque chose.
- 4Redonner ou reprendre des forces, (se) remettre d’aplomb, soit au physique, soit au moral, ragaillardir, regonfler, remonter, retaper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how requinquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était bien aussi mon idée de requinquer Musette quand Médicis m’aura payé, car c’est avec lui que j’ai traité et pas avec mes modèles.
Il a requinqué la vieille baraque.
This word in other languages
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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