récitation
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,538
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
récitation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de réciter, de prononcer un texte qu’on sait par cœur, en prenant un ton moins élevé que celui de la déclamation, et plus élevé que le ton de la simple lecture. Pronounced \ʁe.si.ta.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with reputation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récitation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.si.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #37,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for récitation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.si.ta.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,538 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 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 récitation, with forms such as "rcéitation", "recitation", and "rrécitation". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "reputation", 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 récitation, spelled R-É-C-I-T-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de réciter, de prononcer un texte qu’on sait par cœur, en prenant un ton moins élevé que celui de la déclamation, et plus élevé que le ton de la simple lecture.
- 2Action de dire de mémoire un texte qu’on avait pour obligation d’apprendre par cœur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rcéitation,recitation,rrécitation,réccitation,réciattion,récitaiton,récitatino,récitationn,récitatoin,récitattion,récittaion,récittation,réctiation,réictation,ércitation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for récitation
Misspelling Variants of "récitation"
Frequency rank: #37,538 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "récitation"?
What does "récitation" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "récitation"?
How do you pronounce "récitation"?
What language does "récitation" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: