reconnaissait
\ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“reconnaissait” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,062
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de reconnaître (ou reconnaitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-reconnaissait · reconnaissait · French
reconnaissait · rank #22,062 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,062
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ratifié
Nearest frequency peer: ratifié (-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 « reconnaissait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ramenez
ramenez
77,942 corpus weight
- rance
rance
77,941 corpus weight
- ratifié
ratifié
77,940 corpus weight
- reconnaissa…
reconnaissait
77,939 corpus weight
- regardaient
regardaient
77,937 corpus weight
- relativité
relativité
77,936 corpus weight
What this shows « reconnaissait » 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 | reconnaissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #22,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reconnaissait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around reconnaissait (IPA \ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,062 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de reconnaître (ou reconnaitre).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for reconnaissait, with forms such as "erconnaissait", "rceonnaissait", and "recconnaissait". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "reconnaissant", "reconnaissent", "reconnaîtrait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is reconnaissait, spelled R-E-C-O-N-N-A-I-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de reconnaître (ou reconnaitre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reconnaissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle semblait vide, personne n’était plus sur le banc et le cheval, abandonné, retournait à son écurie d’une allure flâneuse, en bête qui reconnaissait son chemin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erconnaissait
- rceonnaissait
- recconnaissait
- recnonaissait
- reconaissait
- reconanissait
- reconnaisait
- reconnaisasit
- reconnaissaitt
- reconnaissati
- reconnaissiat
- reconnasisait
- reconniassait
- reocnnaissait
- rreconnaissait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reconnaissait - 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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).