recommandation

/\ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,024

in French word usage

Misspellings

19

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

recommandation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Exhortation instante, conseil pressant. Pronounced \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #8,024 in French word frequency. Often confused with recommandations.

Key facts for recommandation
PropertyValue
Headwordrecommandation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃\
Letters14
Frequency rank#8,024
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of recommandation in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for recommandation is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,024 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for recommandation, with forms such as "ercommandation", "rceommandation", and "reccommandation". 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, "recommandations", 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 recommandation, spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-A-N-D-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

  1. 1
    Exhortation instante, conseil pressant.
  2. 2
    Action de recommander quelqu’un.
  3. 3
    Estime qu’on a pour la vertu, pour le mérite.
  4. 4
    Titre dont on peut se prévaloir, qui vous vaut de l’estime.
  5. 5
    Action de recommander une lettre, un paquet.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ercommandation,rceommandation,reccommandation,recmomandation,recomamndation,recomandation,recommadnation,recommanadtion,recommandaiton,recommandatino,recommandationn,recommandatoin,recommandattion,recommanddation,recommandtaion,recommanndation,recommnadation,reocmmandation,rrecommandation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recommandation

Misspelling Variants of "recommandation"

ercommandation14rceommandation14reccommandation15recmomandation14recomamndation14recomandation13recommadnation14recommanadtion14
Misspelling Variants of "recommandation"

Frequency rank: #8,024 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "recommandation"?
"recommandation" is spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-A-N-D-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃\.
What does "recommandation" mean?
As a noun, "recommandation" means: Exhortation instante, conseil pressant.
What words are commonly confused with "recommandation"?
"recommandation" is commonly confused with "recommandations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "recommandation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "recommandation" is \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "recommandation" come from?
"recommandation" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.