recording
\ɹɪˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ\
The verdict
“recording” is uncommon French (frequency #52,304 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,304
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enregistrement sonore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recording · recording · French
recording · rank #52,304 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,304
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redynamiser
Nearest frequency peer: redynamiser (+2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « recording »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rambarde
rambarde
47,701 corpus weight
- ravalement
ravalement
47,700 corpus weight
- recording
recording
47,697 corpus weight
- redynamiser
redynamiser
47,695 corpus weight
- reebok
reebok
47,694 corpus weight
- refoule
refoule
47,693 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recording » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recording |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹɪˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recording » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recording is uncommon French at frequency #52,304 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɹɪˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enregistrement sonore.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for recording in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is recording, spelled R-E-C-O-R-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Enregistrement sonore.
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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