Which to use
“raquette” and “raquettes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,256
- “raquette” frequency rank
- #30,768
- “raquettes” frequency rank
- 51024
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | raquette | raquettes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Instrument dont on se sert pour jouer à la paume, au volant ou au tennis, et qui est fait d’un filet de cordes à boyau, tendues en long et en travers sur un cadre de bois recourbé en ovale et muni d’un manche. | Pluriel de raquette. |
Same sound, different letters: raquette vs raquettes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - raquette and raquettes
This is the hard kind. raquette and raquettes are pronounced identically (\ʁa.kɛt\) 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) - “raquette” sits inside “raquettes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51024, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
raquette is recorded at frequency rank #20,256, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁa.kɛt\. raquettes is at rank #30,768, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁa.kɛt\.
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 51024, this pair ranks #158,167 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of raquette vs raquettes
Shared letters: aeqrtu. Private to "raquette": -. Private to "raquettes": s.
"raquette" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV · "raquettes" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
"raquette" and "raquettes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "raquette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "raquettes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #158,167 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "raquette" and "raquettes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "racket vs raquettes". 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 #158,167 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.