requêtevsroquetteConfusable pair

Which to use

“requête” and “roquette” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#6,021
“requête” frequency rank
#21,756
“roquette” frequency rank
27777
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature requête roquette
Definition Demande écrite ou verbale ; prière. 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 requête and roquette

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. requête runs 7 letters (CVCVVCV) against roquette's 8 (CVCVVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
requête
8 ch
roquette

Visual trap between requête and roquette

A purely visual mix-up. requête (\ʁə.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 27777, 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\. 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 27777, this pair ranks #326,815 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of requête vs roquette

Shared letters: eqrtu. Private to "requête": ê. Private to "roquette": o.

"requête" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV  ·  "roquette" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • roquette ← orquette · roqeutte · roqquette · roquete · roquetet · roqutete · rouqette · rqouette

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "requête" for "roquette" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.kɛt\ versus \ʁɔ.kɛt\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "requête" or "roquette" show up more?
"requête" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,021 in our French list, against #21,756 for "roquette". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "requête" 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 #326,815 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "requête" 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 #326,815 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list