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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

roquette

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English

Syllables
roquette
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A herb of the mustard family (Eruca sativa), with pungently flavored leaves often eaten in salads.

Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from French roquette. Cognate with rocket, see that entry for other cognates.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

roquettes (plural)

Synonyms

arugula rocket garden rocket rocket salad eruca sativa eruca vesicaria sativa

Questions

What does roquette mean?
A herb of the mustard family (Eruca sativa), with pungently flavored leaves often eaten in salads.
Where does roquette come from?
It is traced to French.

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