recadrer
\ʁə.kɑ.dʁe\
The verdict
“recadrer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,966. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,966
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cadrer à nouveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recadrer · recadrer · French
recadrer · rank #39,966 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,966
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reader
Nearest frequency peer: reader (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « recadrer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rapprochait
rapprochait
60,039 corpus weight
- rasta
rasta
60,038 corpus weight
- reader
reader
60,036 corpus weight
- recadrer
recadrer
60,035 corpus weight
- recouvrait
recouvrait
60,034 corpus weight
- redressé
redressé
60,033 corpus weight
What this shows « recadrer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recadrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɑ.dʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recadrer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around recadrer (IPA \ʁə.kɑ.dʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,966 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for recadrer, with forms such as "ercadrer", "rceadrer", and "reacdrer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "réparer", "reader", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is recadrer, spelled R-E-C-A-D-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Cadrer à nouveau.
- 2Donner une orientation nouvelle à (un projet, une politique…).
- 3Réprimander, chapitrer, rappeler à l’ordre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recadrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Paris veut recadrer le rôle de l'OTAN en Afghanistan
Les déclarations de Dominique de Villepin dimanche sur une inflexion politique après le référendum ont donné lieu à « une mise au point » lundi selon le chef du gouvernement qui estime que son ministre de l’Intérieur a « dérapé » ajoutant que « cela arrive souvent quand on veut aller trop vite ». « Je l’ai recadré, l’incident est clos » a affirmé le Premi…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercadrer
- rceadrer
- reacdrer
- recaddrer
- recaderr
- recadrerr
- recadrre
- recadrrer
- recarder
- reccadrer
- recdarer
- rrecadrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recadrer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "recadrer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).