recommencer
\ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“recommencer” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,432. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,432
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commencer de nouveau à faire ce qu’on a déjà fait, commencer deux fois quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recommencer · recommencer · French
recommencer · rank #6,432 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,432
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rassurer
Nearest frequency peer: rassurer (-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 « recommencer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- racistes
racistes
93,571 corpus weight
- rassurer
rassurer
93,570 corpus weight
- recommencer
recommencer
93,569 corpus weight
- reconnais
reconnais
93,568 corpus weight
- relief
relief
93,567 corpus weight
- renvoyer
renvoyer
93,566 corpus weight
What this shows « recommencer » 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 | recommencer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recommencer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around recommencer (IPA \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,432 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for recommencer, with forms such as "ercommencer", "rceommencer", and "reccommencer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "récompenser", "recommencera", "recommencé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is recommencer, spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-E-N-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Commencer de nouveau à faire ce qu’on a déjà fait, commencer deux fois quelque chose.
- 2Remettre un cheval aux premières leçons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recommencer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il paraît, nous a-t-on dit un jour, qu'il existe à Châteauneuf-le-Rouge un labyrinthe de buis si vaste que le jardinier a besoin de l'année entière pour le tailler : il commence à un bout, et, lorsqu'il arrive à la fin du tracé, recommence un nouveau circuit et une nouvelle année.
— Le bavardage continue incessant et ne prendra fin que lorsque sonnera l'heure du repas : il faudra alors à regret rentrer chez soi, mais on recommencera le lendemain et toujours on trouvera matière à commérages !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercommencer
- rceommencer
- reccommencer
- recmomencer
- recomemncer
- recomencer
- recommecner
- recommenccer
- recommencerr
- recommencre
- recommenecr
- recommenncer
- recommnecer
- reocmmencer
- rrecommencer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recommencer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "recommencer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).