recommend
rec·om·mend/ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/verb, noun
recommend is spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-E-N-D, 3 syllables: rec·om·mend. The wrong spelling people search most is reccomend: about 1,120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Recommend is a verb meaning “To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice”.
How many letters and syllables are in recommend?
| Letters | 9: R-E-C-O-M-M-E-N-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: rec·om·mend |
| In writing | 41 times per million words; the 2,438th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 5; the most searched, reccomend, about 1,120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell recommend?
Recommend is spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-E-N-D. 5 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for recommend in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is recommend?
Recommend appears 41 times per million words in written English, the 2,438th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce recommend?
- US /ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/
Recommend has 3 syllables, split rec·om·mend in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-recommend.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with recommend?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as recommend from its last stressed vowel (/ɛnd/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of recommend
- recommends present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- recommending participle, present
- recommended participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does recommend mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
- 2
To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
A city that has much to recommend it.
- 3
To advise, propose, counsel favorably.
The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
- 4
archaicTo commit, to confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations.
A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.
noun
- 1
colloquialA recommendation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Recommend in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to commend to the favorable notice of another:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | recommander |
| German | empfehlen |
| Portuguese | recomendar |
| Spanish | recomendar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does recommend come from?
From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).