roquette

Other forms of roquette

plural

roquettes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about roquette

What does roquette mean?

roquette means "erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender".

How many syllables are in roquette?

roquette has 2 syllables and divides as roq-uette under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for roquette?

Close synonyms include rocket, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula, Eruca sativa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is roquette a common word?

roquette is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.