Which to use
“roque” and “roques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #30,785
- “roque” frequency rank
- #48,771
- “roques” frequency rank
- 79556
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | roque | roques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mouvement du jeu d’échecs où le roi et une tour bougent en un seul coup : le roi va de 2 cases vers la tour et la tour saute le roi et se met sur la case juste à côté. Pour faire ce coup, il faut : | Pluriel de roque. |
Same sound, different letters: roque vs roques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - roque / roques
This is the hard kind. roque and roques are pronounced identically (\ʁɔk\) 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) - “roque” sits inside “roques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79556, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
roque is recorded at frequency rank #30,785, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁɔk\. roques is at rank #48,771, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁɔk\.
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 79556, this pair ranks #23,008 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of roque vs roques
Shared letters: eoqru. Private to "roque": -. Private to "roques": s.
"roque" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "roques" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "roque" and "roques" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "roque" vs "roques" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "roque" / "roques". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "roque" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "roques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #23,008 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "roque" and "roques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "roques vs rouet". 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 #23,008 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.