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.
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?
In ordinary French text, does "requête" or "roquette" show up more?
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.