recension
\ʁə.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“recension” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,108. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,108
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comparaison d’une édition d’un auteur ancien avec les manuscrits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recension · recension · French
recension · rank #43,108 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,108
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rayés
Nearest frequency peer: rayés (-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 « recension »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rapid
rapid
56,896 corpus weight
- rasoirs
rasoirs
56,895 corpus weight
- rayés
rayés
56,894 corpus weight
- recension
recension
56,893 corpus weight
- recréé
recréé
56,892 corpus weight
- religiosité
religiosité
56,890 corpus weight
What this shows « recension » 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 | recension |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recension »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around recension (IPA \ʁə.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,108 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for recension, with forms such as "ercension", "rceension", and "reccension". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "réception", "réclusion", "réversion", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is recension, spelled R-E-C-E-N-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Comparaison d’une édition d’un auteur ancien avec les manuscrits.
- 2Texte revu et édité par un critique.
- 3Compte rendu critique d’une œuvre, d’un ouvrage dans une revue, un journal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recension appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le texte de cet écrivain grec a été établi d’après les plus savantes recensions.
La recension d’Homère par Aristarque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercension
- rceension
- reccension
- recenison
- recennsion
- recensino
- recensionn
- recensoin
- recenssion
- recesnion
- recnesion
- reecnsion
- rrecension
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recension - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "recension", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).