lettre de recommandation
The verdict
“lettre de recommandation” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 24
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Lettre écrite par une personne familière à une autre, habituellement un professeur, un employeur ou une personne avec une autorité similaire, évaluant et souvent vantant les mérites et l’aptitude d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lettre de recommandation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛtʁ də ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lettre de recommandation” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lettre de recommandation is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛtʁ də ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lettre écrite par une personne familière à une autre, habituellement un professeur, un employeur ou une personne avec une autorité similaire, évaluant et souvent vantant les mérites et l’aptitude d...".
No misspelling variants are generated for lettre de recommandation in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lettre de recommandation, spelled L-E-T-T-R-E- -D-E- -R-E-C-O-M-M-A-N-D-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lettre écrite par une personne familière à une autre, habituellement un professeur, un employeur ou une personne avec une autorité similaire, évaluant et souvent vantant les mérites et l’aptitude de l’autre personne pour l’obtention d’un poste.
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Using “lettre de recommandation”
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- The one correct French spelling is L-E-T-T-R-E- -D-E- -R-E-C-O-M-M-A-N-D-A-T-I-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lɛtʁ də ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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