Which to use
“requête” and “requêtes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,021
- “requête” frequency rank
- #11,291
- “requêtes” frequency rank
- 17312
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | requête | requêtes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Demande écrite ou verbale ; prière. | Pluriel de requête. |
Same sound, different letters: requête vs requêtes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. requête runs 7 letters (CVCVVCV) against requêtes's 8 (CVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - requête and requêtes
This is the hard kind. requête and requêtes are pronounced identically (\ʁə.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) - “requête” sits inside “requêtes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17312, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
requête is recorded at frequency rank #6,021, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.kɛt\. requêtes is at rank #11,291, 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 17312, this pair ranks #383,789 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of requête vs requêtes
Shared letters: eqrtuê. Private to "requête": -. Private to "requêtes": s.
"requête" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV · "requêtes" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "requête" and "requêtes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "requête" or "requêtes" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "requête" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "requêtes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #383,789 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "requête" and "requêtes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "raquettes vs requêtes". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #383,789 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.