reclus
\ʁə.kly\
The verdict
“reclus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,213. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,213
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui vit en réclusion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reclus · reclus · French
reclus · rank #27,213 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,213
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recevrez
Nearest frequency peer: recevrez (-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 « reclus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rayonner
rayonner
72,791 corpus weight
- recel
recel
72,790 corpus weight
- recevrez
recevrez
72,789 corpus weight
- reclus
reclus
72,788 corpus weight
- recoins
recoins
72,787 corpus weight
- redescend
redescend
72,786 corpus weight
What this shows « reclus » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reclus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.kly\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reclus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around reclus (IPA \ʁə.kly\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,213 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui vit en réclusion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for reclus, with forms such as "erclus", "rcelus", and "recclus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "reçu", "relu", "reus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 reclus, spelled R-E-C-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Qui vit en réclusion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reclus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis que les francophones fréquentent plus assidûment l'école, leur création lexicale est recluse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erclus
- rcelus
- recclus
- recllus
- reclsu
- recluss
- reculs
- relcus
- rreclus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reclus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "reclus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).