roquet
\ʁɔ.kɛ\
The verdict
“roquet” is uncommon French (frequency #68,625 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,625
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien obtenue par croisement du petit danois et du doguin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roquet · roquet · French
roquet · rank #68,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,625
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rockabilly
Nearest frequency peer: rockabilly (-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 « roquet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rizière
rizière
31,379 corpus weight
- robotisée
robotisée
31,378 corpus weight
- rockabilly
rockabilly
31,377 corpus weight
- roquet
roquet
31,376 corpus weight
- rosy
rosy
31,375 corpus weight
- rumble
rumble
31,373 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roquet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roquet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roquet is uncommon French at frequency #68,625 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for roquet, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is roquet, spelled R-O-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Race de chien obtenue par croisement du petit danois et du doguin.
- 2Petit chien hargneux qui rauque.
- 3Homme insultant, hargneux, mais qui est peu redoutable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous ces chiens sont des métis simples, et viennent du mélange de deux races pures ; mais il ya encore d'autres chiens qu'on pourrait appeler doubles métis, parce qu'ils viennent du mélange d'une race pure et d'une race déjà mêlée. Le roquet est un double métis qui vient du doguin et du petit danois.
Parmi les animaux domestiques appartenant au même groupe, citons […] les roquets qui gardent les douars et les troupeaux ou qui rôdent dans les rues et aux abords des villes, où ils se chargent de la voirie.
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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