réciproque
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réciproque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʁe.si.pʁɔk\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Se 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.
- 2Qualifie les verbes pronominaux qui expriment l’action réciproque de plusieurs objets les uns sur les autres.
- 3Qualifie deux propositions telles que le sujet de l’une peut devenir l’attribut de l’autre, et réciproquement.
- 4Qualifie les termes qui ont la même signification et qui peuvent se prendre l’un pour l’autre.
- 5Qualifie, pour une bijection ou une fonction, l’application qui accomplit la transformation inverse.
This word in other languages
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"
Frequency rank: #10,067 in French
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Nearby French words
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