reconduire

/\ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#27,592

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

reconduire is aFrenchverb. It means: Accompagner quelqu’un sur le chemin qu’il prend pour retourner d’où il vient. Pronounced \ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\. Often confused with reconduit and reconduite.

Key facts for reconduire
PropertyValue
Headwordreconduire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#27,592
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for reconduire is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,592 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for reconduire, with forms such as "erconduire", "rceonduire", and "recconduire". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "reconduit", "reconduite", 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 reconduire, spelled R-E-C-O-N-D-U-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Accompagner quelqu’un sur le chemin qu’il prend pour retourner d’où il vient.
  2. 2
    Accompagner par civilité une personne dont on a reçu visite, lorsqu’elle s’en va.
  3. 3
    Il s’emploie ironiquement et familièrement en parlant d’un homme qu’on chasse, qu’on expulse en le maltraitant.
  4. 4
    Renouveler un contrat, une grève, etc.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erconduire,rceonduire,recconduire,recnoduire,recodnuire,recondduire,recondiure,reconduier,reconduirre,recondurie,reconnduire,reconudire,reocnduire,rreconduire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reconduire

Misspelling Variants of "reconduire"

erconduire10rceonduire10recconduire11recnoduire10recodnuire10recondduire11recondiure10reconduier10
Misspelling Variants of "reconduire"

Frequency rank: #27,592 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reconduire"?
"reconduire" is spelled R-E-C-O-N-D-U-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\.
What does "reconduire" mean?
As a verb, "reconduire" means: Accompagner quelqu’un sur le chemin qu’il prend pour retourner d’où il vient.
What words are commonly confused with "reconduire"?
"reconduire" is commonly confused with "reconduit", "reconduite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "reconduire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reconduire" is \ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reconduire" come from?
"reconduire" 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.