récit
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,797
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
récit is aFrenchnoun. It means: Exposé structuré d’événements réels ou fictifs destiné à être raconté ou lu. Pronounced \ʁe.si\. It ranks #2,797 in French word frequency. Often confused with rei and reçu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for récit is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.si\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,797 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for récit, with forms such as "rcéit", "recit", and "rrécit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rei", "reçu", "rein", and more, 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 récit, spelled R-É-C-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exposé structuré d’événements réels ou fictifs destiné à être raconté ou lu.
- 2Œuvre narrative brève (entre la nouvelle et le roman selon les usages éditoriaux).
- 3Grand récit : cadre explicatif totalisant servant d’horizon idéologique (voir méta-récit).
- 4Rapport, par un personnage ou une voix off, d’un événement important survenu hors-scène ou hors-champ.
- 5Récitatif dans un opéra, un oratorio.
- 6Un des claviers de l’orgue, qui comprend des jeux plus spécialement destinés à être joués en solo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rcéit,recit,rrécit,réccit,récitt,récti,réict
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "récit"
Frequency rank: #2,797 in French
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