risquer
\ʁis.ke\
The verdict
“risquer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,300. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,300
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hasarder, exposer à un danger possible, à une chance douteuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-risquer · risquer · French
risquer · rank #8,300 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,300
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rick
Nearest frequency peer: Rick (-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 « risquer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rejette
rejette
91,705 corpus weight
- renforce
renforce
91,704 corpus weight
- retient
retient
91,703 corpus weight
- Rick
Rick
91,702 corpus weight
- risquer
risquer
91,701 corpus weight
- rousseau
rousseau
91,700 corpus weight
What this shows « risquer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | risquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁis.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « risquer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around risquer (IPA \ʁis.ke\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,300 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for risquer, with forms such as "irsquer", "riqsuer", and "risqeur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "risquez", "risqués", "risqué", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is risquer, spelled R-I-S-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Hasarder, exposer à un danger possible, à une chance douteuse.
- 2Courir le risque, oser le hasard de.
- 3Oser une parole.
- 4S’aventurer ; se hasarder.
- 5Pouvoir, avoir une possibilité ou une occasion de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how risquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est certaines situations dont bénéficient seuls les gens tarés. Ils fondent leur fortune là où des hommes mieux posés et plus influents n’auraient point osé risquer la leur. Certes, Roudier, Granoux et les autres, par leur position d’hommes riches et respectés, semblaient devoir être mille fois préférés à Pierre comme chefs actifs du parti conservateur…
M. Demangeot et le commandant Marigny se font tête, abattent cœur, pique et trèfle, l'atout, le roi, coupent et surcoupent impassibles comme s'ils risquaient des fortunes au lansquenet du roi.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irsquer
- riqsuer
- risqeur
- risqquer
- risquerr
- risqure
- rissquer
- risuqer
- rrisquer
- rsiquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of risquer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).