Which to use
“raquette” and “roquette” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,256
- “raquette” frequency rank
- #21,756
- “roquette” frequency rank
- 42012
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | raquette | roquette |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | 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 mange en salade. |
Where the eye mixes raquette and roquette
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. raquette and roquette follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses raquette with roquette
A purely visual mix-up. raquette (\ʁa.kɛt\) and roquette (\ʁɔ.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 a single letter - a in “raquette” becomes o in “roquette”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42012, 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\. roquette is at rank #21,756, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁɔ.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 42012, this pair ranks #228,864 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of raquette vs roquette
Shared letters: eqrtu. Private to "raquette": a. Private to "roquette": o.
"raquette" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV · "roquette" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "raquette" and "roquette" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "raquette" vs "roquette" - which ranks higher?
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 "roquette" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #228,864 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "raquette" and "roquette" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rockets vs roquette". 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 #228,864 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.