recommander
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,283
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
recommander is aFrenchverb. It means: Ordonner à quelqu’un, prier avec instance quelqu’un de faire quelque chose, lui donner à ce sujet des instructions précises. Pronounced \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.de\. Often confused with recommencer and recommandés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recommander |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #11,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for recommander is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,283 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for recommander, with forms such as "ercommander", "rceommander", and "reccommander". 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, "recommencer", "recommandés", "recommande", 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 recommander, spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ordonner à quelqu’un, prier avec instance quelqu’un de faire quelque chose, lui donner à ce sujet des instructions précises.
- 2Conseiller particulièrement quelque chose, exhorter une personne à quelque chose.
- 3Désigner à l’attention, à la bienveillance, à la protection de quelqu’un.
- 4et par ironie,
- 5…
- 6Faire enregistrer à la poste une lettre, un paquet, pour envoi postal afin qu’ils soient remis au destinataire en mains propres, contre signature.
- 7Rendre recommandable.
- 8Commander de nouveau.
- 9Invoquer en sa faveur le nom, le témoignage de quelqu’un ; attester qu’on en est connu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ercommander,rceommander,reccommander,recmomander,recomamnder,recomander,recommadner,recommandder,recommanderr,recommandre,recommanedr,recommannder,recommnader,reocmmander,rrecommander
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recommander
Misspelling Variants of "recommander"
Frequency rank: #11,283 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: