réciproque

/\ʁe.si.pʁɔk\/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,067

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

réciproque is anFrenchadj. It means: Se dit en parlant de deux personnes ou de deux choses dont chacune exerce sur l’autre une action équivalente à celle qu’elle en reçoit. Pronounced \ʁe.si.pʁɔk\.

Key facts for réciproque
PropertyValue
Headwordréciproque
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʁe.si.pʁɔk\
Letters10
Frequency rank#10,067
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for réciproque is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.si.pʁɔk\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,067 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for réciproque, with forms such as "rcéiproque", "reciproque", and "rréciproque". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 réciproque, spelled R-É-C-I-P-R-O-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se dit en parlant de deux personnes ou de deux choses dont chacune exerce sur l’autre une action équivalente à celle qu’elle en reçoit.
  2. 2
    Qualifie les verbes pronominaux qui expriment l’action réciproque de plusieurs objets les uns sur les autres.
  3. 3
    Qualifie deux propositions telles que le sujet de l’une peut devenir l’attribut de l’autre, et réciproquement.
  4. 4
    Qualifie les termes qui ont la même signification et qui peuvent se prendre l’un pour l’autre.
  5. 5
    Qualifie, pour une bijection ou une fonction, l’application qui accomplit la transformation inverse.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rcéiproque,reciproque,rréciproque,récciproque,réciporque,récipproque,réciproqeu,réciproqque,réciprouqe,réciprqoue,réciprroque,récirpoque,récpiroque,réicproque,érciproque

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for réciproque

Misspelling Variants of "réciproque"

rcéiproque10reciproque10rréciproque11récciproque11réciporque10récipproque11réciproqeu10réciproqque11
Misspelling Variants of "réciproque"

Frequency rank: #10,067 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "réciproque"?
"réciproque" is spelled R-É-C-I-P-R-O-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.si.pʁɔk\.
What does "réciproque" mean?
As an adj, "réciproque" means: Se dit en parlant de deux personnes ou de deux choses dont chacune exerce sur l’autre une action équivalente à celle qu’elle en reçoit.
What are common misspellings of "réciproque"?
Common misspellings include "rcéiproque", "reciproque", "rréciproque", "récciproque", "réciporque". The correct spelling is "réciproque".
How do you pronounce "réciproque"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "réciproque" is \ʁe.si.pʁɔk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "réciproque" come from?
"réciproque" 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.