roquette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,756
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
roquette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom de plusieurs plantes de la famille des Brassicacées à l'odeur forte — due en partie à l’isothyocyanate d’allyle, l’érucine et le sulforaphane — et que l’on cultive dans les potagers et qui se m... Pronounced \ʁɔ.kɛt\. Often confused with rosette and roulette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roquette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,756 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for roquette, with forms such as "orquette", "roqeutte", and "roqquette". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "rosette", "roulette", "roquettes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is roquette, spelled R-O-Q-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom de plusieurs plantes de la famille des Brassicacées à l'odeur forte — due en partie à l’isothyocyanate d’allyle, l’érucine et le sulforaphane — et que l’on cultive dans les potagers et qui se mange en salade.
- 2Roquette batarde : Nom vulgaire de la gaude ou réséda des teinturiers (Reseda luteola L.)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orquette,roqeutte,roqquette,roquete,roquetet,roqutete,rouqette,rqouette,rroquette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for roquette
Misspelling Variants of "roquette"
Frequency rank: #21,756 in French
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