réconfort
\ʁe.kɔ̃.fɔʁ\
The verdict
“réconfort” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,026. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,026
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui réconforte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reconfort · réconfort · French
réconfort · rank #15,026 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,026
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revois
Nearest frequency peer: revois (-2 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 « réconfort »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Reuters
Reuters
84,979 corpus weight
- revente
revente
84,978 corpus weight
- revois
revois
84,977 corpus weight
- réconfort
réconfort
84,975 corpus weight
- résonance
résonance
84,973 corpus weight
- rééducation
rééducation
84,972 corpus weight
What this shows « réconfort » 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 | réconfort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.kɔ̃.fɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « réconfort »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around réconfort (IPA \ʁe.kɔ̃.fɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,026 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ce qui réconforte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for réconfort, with forms such as "rcéonfort", "reconfort", and "rréconfort". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "renfort", "réconforter", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is réconfort, spelled R-É-C-O-N-F-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Ce qui réconforte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how réconfort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand Olivier Émery était au fond du trou comme aujourd'hui, il n'avait plus aucun espoir et pressentait que tout était joué. Téléphoner à FIP ne servirait plus à rien, aucun réconfort ne lui parviendrait, […].
Tout son réconfort est que… Voilà tout son réconfort.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rcéonfort
- reconfort
- rréconfort
- récconfort
- récnofort
- récofnort
- réconffort
- réconforrt
- réconfortt
- réconfotr
- réconfrot
- réconnfort
- réconofrt
- réocnfort
- érconfort
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of réconfort - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).