recentrer
\ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe\
The verdict
“recentrer” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,509. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,509
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire revenir vers le centre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recentrer · recentrer · French
recentrer · rank #29,509 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,509
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rayonne
Nearest frequency peer: rayonne (-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 « recentrer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rave
rave
70,495 corpus weight
- raviver
raviver
70,494 corpus weight
- rayonne
rayonne
70,493 corpus weight
- recentrer
recentrer
70,492 corpus weight
- recherchait
recherchait
70,491 corpus weight
- recoller
recoller
70,490 corpus weight
What this shows « recentrer » 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 | recentrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recentrer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around recentrer (IPA \ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,509 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Faire revenir vers le centre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for recentrer, with forms such as "ercentrer", "rceentrer", and "reccentrer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "rentrer", "retenter", "régénérer", and more, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is recentrer, spelled R-E-C-E-N-T-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire revenir vers le centre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recentrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Confronté à des difficultés économiques, le moteur de recherche réduit ses ambitions et se recentre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercentrer
- rceentrer
- reccentrer
- recenntrer
- recenrter
- recenterr
- recentrerr
- recentrre
- recentrrer
- recenttrer
- recetnrer
- recnetrer
- reecntrer
- rrecentrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recentrer - 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 "recentrer", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).