recommande

/\ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃d\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,524

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

recommande is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de recommander. Pronounced \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃d\. It ranks #4,524 in French word frequency. Often confused with recommencé and recommander.

Key facts for recommande
PropertyValue
Headwordrecommande
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃d\
Letters10
Frequency rank#4,524
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for recommande is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃d\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,524 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 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for recommande, with forms such as "ercommande", "rceommande", and "reccommande". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "recommencé", "recommander", "recommandée", and more, 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 recommande, spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de recommander.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de recommander.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de recommander.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de recommander.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de recommander.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ercommande,rceommande,reccommande,recmomande,recomamnde,recomande,recommadne,recommandde,recommaned,recommannde,recommnade,reocmmande,rrecommande

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recommande

Misspelling Variants of "recommande"

ercommande10rceommande10reccommande11recmomande10recomamnde10recomande9recommadne10recommandde11
Misspelling Variants of "recommande"

Frequency rank: #4,524 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "recommande"?
"recommande" is spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃d\.
What does "recommande" mean?
As a verb, "recommande" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de recommander.
What words are commonly confused with "recommande"?
"recommande" is commonly confused with "recommencé", "recommander", "recommandée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "recommande"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "recommande" is \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃d\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "recommande" come from?
"recommande" 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.