Which to use
“raquette” and “requête” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,256
- “raquette” frequency rank
- #6,021
- “requête” frequency rank
- 26277
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | raquette | requête |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Demande écrite ou verbale ; prière. |
Where the eye mixes raquette and requête
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. raquette runs 8 letters (CVCVVCCV) against requête's 7 (CVCVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Why the eye confuses raquette with requête
A purely visual mix-up. raquette (\ʁa.kɛt\) and requête (\ʁə.kɛt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26277, 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\. requête is at rank #6,021, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.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 26277, this pair ranks #336,043 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of raquette vs requête
Shared letters: eqrtu. Private to "raquette": a. Private to "requête": ê.
"raquette" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV · "requête" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- raquette ← arquette · raqeutte · raqquette · raquete · raquetet · raqutete · rauqette · rqauette
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "raquette" for "requête" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "raquette" or "requête" show up more?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "raquette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "requête" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #336,043 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "raquette" and "requête" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "raquette 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 #336,043 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.