Which to use
“piquet” and “piquets” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,718
- “piquet” frequency rank
- #32,957
- “piquets” frequency rank
- 57675
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | piquet | piquets |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Petit pieu que l’on fiche en terre pour tendre et arrêter les cordes des tentes, des pavillons. | Pluriel de piquet. |
Same sound, different letters: piquet vs piquets
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. piquet runs 6 letters (CVCVVC) against piquets's 7 (CVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: piquet vs piquets
This is the hard kind. piquet and piquets are pronounced identically (\pi.kɛ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “piquet” sits inside “piquets”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57675, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
piquet is recorded at frequency rank #24,718, classified as anoun, pronounced \pi.kɛ\. piquets is at rank #32,957, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pi.kɛ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 57675, this pair ranks #113,599 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of piquet vs piquets
Shared letters: eipqtu. Private to "piquet": -. Private to "piquets": s.
"piquet" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "piquets" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "piquet" and "piquets" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "piquet" or "piquets"?
Useful next steps
"piquet" and "piquets" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "piquet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "piquets" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #113,599 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "piquet" and "piquets" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "piquants vs piquets". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #113,599 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.