recevant
\ʁə.sə.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“recevant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,036. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,036
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de recevoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recevant · recevant · French
recevant · rank #12,036 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,036
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rassuré
Nearest frequency peer: rassuré (-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 « recevant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- PV
PV
87,968 corpus weight
- rabais
rabais
87,967 corpus weight
- rassuré
rassuré
87,966 corpus weight
- recevant
recevant
87,965 corpus weight
- receveur
receveur
87,964 corpus weight
- recrue
recrue
87,962 corpus weight
What this shows « recevant » 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 | recevant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.sə.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recevant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around recevant (IPA \ʁə.sə.vɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,036 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de recevoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for recevant, with forms such as "ercevant", "rceevant", and "reccevant". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rêvant", "relevant", "relèvent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is recevant, spelled R-E-C-E-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de recevoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recevant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Recevant cette information acoustique continue et linéaire, l’auditeur doit en extraire des unités significatives et distinctives, et contrairement à ce que semble considérer Saussure, ceci ne suppose pas obligatoirement qu’il utilise un signifiant unilinéarisé et temporellement contraint.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercevant
- rceevant
- reccevant
- receavnt
- recevannt
- recevantt
- recevatn
- recevnat
- recevvant
- recveant
- reecvant
- rrecevant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recevant - 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).