reconnais
\ʁə.kɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“reconnais” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,433. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,433
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de reconnaître (ou reconnaitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-reconnais · reconnais · French
reconnais · rank #6,433 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,433
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recommencer
Nearest frequency peer: recommencer (-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 « reconnais »
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 « reconnais » 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 | reconnais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reconnais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around reconnais (IPA \ʁə.kɔ.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,433 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for reconnais, with forms such as "erconnais", "rceonnais", and "recconnais". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "rennais", "reconnus", "reconnaît", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is reconnais, spelled R-E-C-O-N-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de reconnaître (ou reconnaitre).
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de reconnaître (ou reconnaitre).
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de reconnaître (ou reconnaitre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reconnais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je m’étais proposé de dire un mot dans mon oraison contre l’usage que je déplore ; mais une voix intérieure ne me le permit pas, et je reconnais que ce que j’eusse dit sur ce sujet n’aurait fait, dans ce moment, que de désédifier mes auditeurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erconnais
- rceonnais
- recconnais
- recnonais
- reconais
- reconanis
- reconnaiss
- reconnasi
- reconnias
- reocnnais
- rreconnais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reconnais - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).