reconstruire
\ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\
The verdict
“reconstruire” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,766
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Construire à nouveau (par exemple une maison démolie, un raisonnement oublié, etc.).
Corpus desk
Index FR-reconstruire · reconstruire · French
reconstruire · rank #8,766 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,766
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rachel
Nearest frequency peer: Rachel (-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 « reconstruire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pénis
pénis
91,237 corpus weight
- Rachel
Rachel
91,236 corpus weight
- reconstruire
reconstruire
91,235 corpus weight
- regroupement
regroupement
91,234 corpus weight
- représentait
représentait
91,233 corpus weight
- restreint
restreint
91,232 corpus weight
What this shows « reconstruire » 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 | reconstruire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #8,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reconstruire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around reconstruire (IPA \ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,766 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for reconstruire, with forms such as "erconstruire", "rceonstruire", and "recconstruire". 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, "reconstruit", "reconstruite", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 reconstruire, spelled R-E-C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Construire à nouveau (par exemple une maison démolie, un raisonnement oublié, etc.).
- 2Proposer une forme théorique pour un mot ancien qui serait à l’origine d’un ou plusieurs mots dans une langue en particulier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reconstruire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En un mot elle reconstruisait par la pensée la série d’événements auxquels le chasseur s’était subitement mêlé […]
Ce qu'il y a de certain, c'est […] que le château actuel a été reconstruit au commencement de 1500, sur l'emplacement d'un plus ancien, pour défendre le passage de la rivière.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erconstruire
- rceonstruire
- recconstruire
- recnostruire
- reconnstruire
- reconsrtuire
- reconsstruire
- reconstriure
- reconstrruire
- reconstruier
- reconstruirre
- reconstrurie
- reconsttruire
- reconsturire
- recontsruire
- recosntruire
- reocnstruire
- rreconstruire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reconstruire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "reconstruire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).