# recipe

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/ · frequency rank #4,886

## Definitions
1. A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
2. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
3. A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
4. Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
5. A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”). Doublet of recept and receipt.

## Easily confused with
- **ripe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-ripe)
- **regime** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-regime)
- **retire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-retire)
- **revive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-revive)
- **reside** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-reside)
- **revise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-revise)
- **recite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-recite)
- **refine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-refine)
- **relive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-relive)
- **recap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recap-vs-recipe)
- **Recep** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recep-vs-recipe)
- **Racine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/racine-vs-recipe)
- **recede** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recede-vs-recipe)
- **Recife** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recife-vs-recipe)
- **receive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/receive-vs-recipe)
- **receipt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/receipt-vs-recipe)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ercipe`, `rceipe`, `reccipe`, `reciep`, `recippe`, `recpie`, `reicpe`, `rrecipe`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/recipe