réception
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,503
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
réception is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de recevoir une chose qui a été adressée. Pronounced \ʁe.sɛp.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,503 in French word frequency. Often confused with réfection and rédemption.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réception |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.sɛp.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for réception is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.sɛp.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,503 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for réception, with forms such as "rcéeption", "reception", and "rréception". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "réfection", "rédemption", "réceptions", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 réception, spelled R-É-C-E-P-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de recevoir une chose qui a été adressée.
- 2Action de recevoir des ondes.
- 3Procédure par laquelle on accepte un résultat comme conforme à la commande passée.
- 4Accueil ; manière de recevoir.
- 5Manière dont une œuvre est perçue, lue ou interprétée dans un autre contexte culturel ou temporel.
- 6Action de recevoir plusieurs personnes à la fois, avec une sorte de cérémonial.
- 7Cérémonie par laquelle quelqu’un est reçu dans une compagnie ou installé dans une charge.
- 8Lieu dans un hôtel, une entreprise où les clients sont reçus, par extension, le service qui s’en occupe.
- 9Action de retomber sur le sol.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rcéeption,reception,rréception,récception,récepiton,récepption,réceptino,réceptionn,réceptoin,récepttion,récetpion,récpetion,réecption,érception
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for réception
Misspelling Variants of "réception"
Frequency rank: #3,503 in French
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Nearby French words
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