recharger

/\ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒe\/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,480

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

recharger is aFrenchverb. It means: Charger à nouveau de biens ou de marchandises ; augmenter un chargement. Pronounced \ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒe\. Often confused with recharge and rechange.

Key facts for recharger
PropertyValue
Headwordrecharger
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒe\
Letters9
Frequency rank#15,480
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of recharger in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for recharger is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,480 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 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 recharger, with forms such as "ercharger", "rceharger", and "recahrger". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "recharge", "rechange", 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 recharger, spelled R-E-C-H-A-R-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Charger à nouveau de biens ou de marchandises ; augmenter un chargement.
  2. 2
    Remettre des projectiles dans une arme à feu.
  3. 3
    Remettre du combustible dans un foyer.
  4. 4
    Charger à nouveau un appareil fonctionnant sur batterie, avec de l’électricité.
  5. 5
    Remettre à niveau un contenu liquide qui manquait.
  6. 6
    Remettre de la matière à un objet, là où l'usure l'a faite disparaître.
  7. 7
    Donner un ordre encore plus pressant.
  8. 8
    Reprendre son fardeau, sa charge.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ercharger,rceharger,recahrger,reccharger,rechagrer,recharegr,rechargerr,rechargger,rechargre,recharrger,rechharger,rechrager,rehcarger,rrecharger

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recharger

Misspelling Variants of "recharger"

ercharger9rceharger9recahrger9reccharger10rechagrer9recharegr9rechargerr10rechargger10
Misspelling Variants of "recharger"

Frequency rank: #15,480 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "recharger"?
"recharger" is spelled R-E-C-H-A-R-G-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒe\.
What does "recharger" mean?
As a verb, "recharger" means: Charger à nouveau de biens ou de marchandises ; augmenter un chargement.
What words are commonly confused with "recharger"?
"recharger" is commonly confused with "recharge", "rechange". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "recharger"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "recharger" is \ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "recharger" come from?
"recharger" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.