recurrence
/rəˈkɝ.əns/noun
recurrence is spelled R-E-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is recurrance: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Recurrence is a noun meaning “Return or reversion to a certain state”. The plural of recurrence is recurrences.
How many letters and syllables are in recurrence?
| Letters | 10: R-E-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words; the 22,362nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, recurrance, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 recurrence?
Recurrence is spelled R-E-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for recurrence 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 recurrence?
Recurrence appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,362nd 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 recurrence?
- US /rəˈkɝ.əns/
Recurrence has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Knabrupt-recurrence.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with recurrence
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with recurrence?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as recurrence from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹəns/):
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 recurrence
- recurrences plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does recurrence mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Return or reversion to a certain state.
- 2
The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
- 3
A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
Near-synonym: relapse
- 4
Recourse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Recurrence in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | récurrence |
| German | Rückfall, Wiederholung , Rekurrenz |
| Portuguese | reversão, retorno, volta , recorrência |
| Spanish | recurrencia , recaída |
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 recurrence come from?
From recurrent + -ence, cognate with Latin recurrentia, from recurrēns (“returning back, recurring”), form of recurrō (“to return, to recur”) (English recur).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
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