recevait
\ʁə.s(ə.)vɛ\
The verdict
“recevait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,892. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,892
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de recevoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recevait · recevait · French
recevait · rank #13,892 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,892
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recharge
Nearest frequency peer: recharge (+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 « recevait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- quittant
quittant
86,112 corpus weight
- rapportés
rapportés
86,111 corpus weight
- recevait
recevait
86,109 corpus weight
- recharge
recharge
86,108 corpus weight
- redevenir
redevenir
86,107 corpus weight
- refonte
refonte
86,106 corpus weight
What this shows « recevait » 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 | recevait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.s(ə.)vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recevait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around recevait (IPA \ʁə.s(ə.)vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,892 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de recevoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for recevait, with forms such as "ercevait", "rceevait", and "reccevait". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "rêvait", "recevoir", "relevant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is recevait, spelled R-E-C-E-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de recevoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recevait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On me conduisit au maître de céans : François Le Lionnais, dont j’étais l'invité en ce jour où il recevait, en « déjeuner de travail », les membres de l’Oulipopo (Ouvroir de littérature policière potentielle).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercevait
- rceevait
- reccevait
- receavit
- recevaitt
- recevati
- receviat
- recevvait
- recveait
- reecvait
- rrecevait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recevait - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).