reconnaissance
Letters
14 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,297
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
reconnaissance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action par laquelle on retrouve dans sa mémoire l’idée, l’image d’une chose ou d’une personne quand on vient à la revoir, de sorte à l'identifier. Pronounced \ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s\. It ranks #2,297 in French word frequency. Often confused with reconnaissant and reconnaissante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reconnaissance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #2,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for reconnaissance is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,297 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for reconnaissance, with forms such as "erconnaissance", "rceonnaissance", and "recconnaissance". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "reconnaissant", "reconnaissante", "reconnaissants", and more, 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 reconnaissance, spelled R-E-C-O-N-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle on retrouve dans sa mémoire l’idée, l’image d’une chose ou d’une personne quand on vient à la revoir, de sorte à l'identifier.
- 2Action d’examiner en détail et avec soin certains objets pour en constater l’espèce, le nombre, etc.
- 3Acte par lequel on reconnaît qu’on a reçu quelque chose, soit par emprunt, soit en dépôt, ou pour reconnaître qu’on est obligé à quelque chose.
- 4Aveu ou confession d’une faute.
- 5Action de reconnaître, d’admettre comme légal un gouvernement étranger.
- 6Gratitude ; souvenir des bienfaits reçus.
- 7Considération.
- 8Action d’examiner la position, la nature d’un terrain et les dispositions de l’ennemi.
- 9Action d’apercevoir, de découvrir, d’explorer des côtes, des rades, etc., en naviguant.
- 10Droit payable en nature.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erconnaissance,rceonnaissance,recconnaissance,recnonaissance,reconaissance,reconanissance,reconnaisance,reconnaisasnce,reconnaissacne,reconnaissancce,reconnaissanec,reconnaissannce,reconnaissnace,reconnasisance,reconniassance,reocnnaissance,rreconnaissance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reconnaissance
Misspelling Variants of "reconnaissance"
Frequency rank: #2,297 in French
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