recenser
\ʁə.sɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“recenser” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,104. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,104
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compter ou évaluer les éléments d’une grandeur nombrable ; dénombrer ; quantifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recenser · recenser · French
recenser · rank #29,104 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,104
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reboot
Nearest frequency peer: reboot (-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 « recenser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ramsey
Ramsey
70,900 corpus weight
- RDS
RDS
70,899 corpus weight
- reboot
reboot
70,898 corpus weight
- recenser
recenser
70,897 corpus weight
- reconverti
reconverti
70,896 corpus weight
- renan
renan
70,895 corpus weight
What this shows « recenser » 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 | recenser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.sɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recenser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around recenser (IPA \ʁə.sɑ̃.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,104 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for recenser, with forms such as "ercenser", "rceenser", and "reccenser". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "récente", "repensé", "récentes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is recenser, spelled R-E-C-E-N-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Compter ou évaluer les éléments d’une grandeur nombrable ; dénombrer ; quantifier.
- 2Passer en revue ; faire l’inventaire ou le bilan ; évaluer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recenser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi le scribe Égyptien ^([sic : égyptien]) recensait de sa pointe minutieuse les tributs, et les parts de butin, et les files de dix captifs attachés. Et les mesures de blé que l’on porte à la meule banale et les barques à la douane.
On va recenser de nouveau la population de la France.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercenser
- rceenser
- reccenser
- recenesr
- recennser
- recenserr
- recensre
- recensser
- recesner
- recneser
- reecnser
- rrecenser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recenser - 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
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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).