récital

\ʁe.si.tal\

/\ʁe.si.tal\/ noun

The verdict

“récital” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,118. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,118
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concert par une seule personne, sur un thème donné.

Corpus desk

Index FR-recital · récital · French

récital · rank #25,118 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,118
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH ruée

Nearest frequency peer: ruée (-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 « récital »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « récital » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

récital vs récits
71% similar
récital vs réciter
71% similar
récital vs revival
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for récital
PropertyValue
Headwordrécital
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁe.si.tal\
Letters7
Frequency rank#25,118
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « récital »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).récitalse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ruée » (#25,117), « réfuter » (#25,119), « RSI » (#25,116). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « récital » est au #25,118. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around récital (IPA \ʁe.si.tal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,118 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Concert par une seule personne, sur un thème donné.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for récital, with forms such as "rcéital", "recital", and "rrécital". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "récits", "réciter", "revival", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is récital, spelled R-É-C-I-T-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Concert par une seule personne, sur un thème donné.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how récital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À une époque où les artistes de jazz apparaissent de plus en plus souvent sur scène, il peut sembler surprenant qu'il ait fallu attendre 1956 pour voir réalisé un microsillon contenant l'enregistrement d'un récital de Garner.
  2. En 1973, quand le centre d'activités culturelles et de loisirs de Sully organisait son « florilège musical » en présentant un récital de guitare, un récital d'orgue et un concert de l'Ensemble instrumental Andrée Colson, tu n'étais pas intéressé encore ; […].

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rcéital
  • recital
  • rrécital
  • réccital
  • réciatl
  • récitall
  • récitla
  • récittal
  • réctial
  • réictal
  • ércital

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of récital - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

rcéital2recital1rrécital1réccital1réciatl2récitall1récitla2récittal1
Edit distance from "récital"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "récital"?
"récital" is spelled R-É-C-I-T-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.si.tal\.
What does "récital" mean?
As a noun, "récital" means: Concert par une seule personne, sur un thème donné.
What words are commonly confused with "récital"?
"récital" is commonly confused with "récits", "réciter", "revival". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "récital"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "récital" is \ʁe.si.tal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "récital" come from?
"récital" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "récital", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list