Which to use
“rejeté” is a verb and “requête” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #6,882
- “rejeté” frequency rank
- #6,021
- “requête” frequency rank
- 12903
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | rejeté | requête |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe rejeter. | Demande écrite ou verbale ; prière. |
Where the eye mixes rejeté and requête
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. rejeté runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against requête's 7 (CVCVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: rejeté vs requête
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: rejeté is \ʁə.ʒə.te\ while requête is \ʁə.kɛt\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12903, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
rejeté is recorded at frequency rank #6,882, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ʒə.te\. 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 12903, this pair ranks #403,270 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of rejeté vs requête
Shared letters: ert. Private to "rejeté": jé. Private to "requête": quê.
"rejeté" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "requête" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "rejeté" and "requête" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "rejeté" 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 #403,270 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "rejeté" and "requête" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejeté vs revêtue". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #403,270 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.