reçois
\ʁə.swa\
The verdict
“reçois” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,232. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,232
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de recevoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recois · reçois · French
reçois · rank #6,232 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,232
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 507,453
- PHOTO-FINISH restés
Nearest frequency peer: restés (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “reçois”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ressentir
ressentir
93,771 corpus weight
- restés
restés
93,770 corpus weight
- reçois
reçois
93,769 corpus weight
- rumeur
rumeur
93,768 corpus weight
- régionaux
régionaux
93,767 corpus weight
- sachez
sachez
93,766 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “reçois” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | reçois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.swa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “reçois” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around reçois (IPA \ʁə.swa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,232 among 507,453 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for reçois, with forms such as "erçois", "recois", and "reoçis". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rois", "Reis", "remis", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is reçois, spelled R-E-Ç-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de recevoir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de recevoir.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de recevoir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erçois
- recois
- reoçis
- reçios
- reçoiss
- reçosi
- rreçois
- rçeois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reçois - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "reçois", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.