recopier
\ʁə.kɔ.pje\
The verdict
“recopier” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,679. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,679
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transcrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recopier · recopier · French
recopier · rank #31,679 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,679
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconnaissabl…
Nearest frequency peer: reconnaissables (-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 « recopier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reclassement
reclassement
68,325 corpus weight
- reconduite
reconduite
68,324 corpus weight
- reconnaissa…
reconnaissables
68,323 corpus weight
- recopier
recopier
68,322 corpus weight
- redevienne
redevienne
68,321 corpus weight
- redouter
redouter
68,320 corpus weight
What this shows « recopier » 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 | recopier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ.pje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recopier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around recopier (IPA \ʁə.kɔ.pje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,679 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Transcrire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for recopier, with forms such as "ercopier", "rceopier", and "reccopier". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "recouper", "récolter", "recoller", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is recopier, spelled R-E-C-O-P-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Transcrire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recopier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon devoir est achevé au brouillon : je n’ai plus qu’à le recopier.
— Eh bien ! si tu vas rue de Grenelle, écris encore plus mal, que jamais ton écriture ne puisse passer sous les yeux du roi sans être recopiée, cela te sauvera de l’ennui de transcrire des pièces secrètes et, ce qui vaut mieux, ton écriture ne restera pas attachée à des choses qui peuvent être un souvenir pénible dans dix ans.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercopier
- rceopier
- reccopier
- recoiper
- recopeir
- recopierr
- recopire
- recoppier
- recpoier
- reocpier
- rrecopier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recopier - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).