recoins
\ʁə.kwɛ̃\
The verdict
“recoins” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,214
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de recoin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recoins · recoins · French
recoins · rank #27,214 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,214
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reclus
Nearest frequency peer: reclus (-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 « recoins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- reflux
reflux
72,785 corpus weight
What this shows « recoins » 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 | recoins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recoins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around recoins (IPA \ʁə.kwɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,214 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de recoin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for recoins, with forms such as "ercoins", "rceoins", and "reccoins". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "reins", "reçoit", "reçois", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is recoins, spelled R-E-C-O-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de recoin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recoins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et partout des portes, des passages couverts, des arcades ciselées, des venelles, des fenêtres qui donnaient d’une rue haute vers une rue plus basse, avec des marches et des recoins où trônaient des autels de pierre noire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercoins
- rceoins
- reccoins
- recions
- recoinns
- recoinss
- recoisn
- reconis
- reocins
- rrecoins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recoins - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).