riquet
\ʁi.kɛ\
The verdict
“riquet” is uncommon French (frequency #53,605 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,605
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des noms vulgaires du grillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-riquet · riquet · French
riquet · rank #53,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,605
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rigueurs
Nearest frequency peer: rigueurs (-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 « riquet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rhumes
rhumes
46,399 corpus weight
- rhénane
rhénane
46,398 corpus weight
- rigueurs
rigueurs
46,397 corpus weight
- riquet
riquet
46,396 corpus weight
- récidives
récidives
46,393 corpus weight
- récollets
récollets
46,392 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « riquet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « riquet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
riquet is uncommon French at frequency #53,605 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un des noms vulgaires du grillon.".
riquet doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is riquet, spelled R-I-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Un des noms vulgaires du grillon.
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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