risqué

adj

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The verdict

“risqué” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,031. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,031
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui présente un risque certain.

Corpus desk

Index FR-risque · risqué · French

risqué · rank #8,031 · 9 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,031
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH revenue

Nearest frequency peer: revenue (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « risqué »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « risqué » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

risqué vs roque
50% similar
risqué vs risquer
71% similar
risqué vs risquez
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for risqué
PropertyValue
Headwordrisqué
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,031
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « risqué »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.risquése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « revenue » (#8,030), « rituel » (#8,032), « retrouvés » (#8,029). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « risqué » est au #8,031. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around risqué, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,031 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for risqué, with forms such as "irsqué", "riqsué", and "risqqué". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "roque", "risquer", "risquez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is risqué, spelled R-I-S-Q-U-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui présente un risque certain.
  2. 2
    Osé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how risqué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un investissement risqué.
  2. Des propos risqués.

This word in other languages

risky(English)riesgoso(Español)riskant(Deutsch)arriscado(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • irsqué
  • riqsué
  • risqqué
  • risque
  • risqéu
  • rissqué
  • risuqé
  • rrisqué
  • rsiqué

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of risqué - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

irsqué2riqsué2risqqué1risque1risqéu2rissqué1risuqé2rrisqué1
Edit distance from "risqué"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "risqué"?
"risqué" is spelled R-I-S-Q-U-É.
What does "risqué" mean?
As an adjective, "risqué" means: Qui présente un risque certain.
What words are commonly confused with "risqué"?
"risqué" is commonly confused with "roque", "risquer", "risquez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "risqué" come from?
"risqué" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "risqué", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rituel#8,032potter#8,014traîne#8,049turque#8,051

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

revenue9 variantsPeugeot9 variantsNigeria9 variantsmartine9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list