Which to use
“raquettes” and “roquette” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #30,768
- “raquettes” frequency rank
- #21,756
- “roquette” frequency rank
- 52524
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | raquettes | roquette |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de raquette. | 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 raquettes and roquette
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.
Visual trap between raquettes and roquette
A purely visual mix-up. raquettes (\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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52524, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
raquettes is recorded at frequency rank #30,768, 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 52524, this pair ranks #147,135 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of raquettes vs roquette
Shared letters: eqrtu. Private to "raquettes": as. Private to "roquette": o.
"raquettes" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCCVC · "roquette" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "raquettes" for "roquette" ever safe?
Frequency check: "raquettes" vs "roquette" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "raquettes" and "roquette" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "raquettes" 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 #147,135 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "raquettes" 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 #147,135 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.