records

/\ʁə.kɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,741

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

records is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de record. Pronounced \ʁə.kɔʁ\. It ranks #6,741 in French word frequency. Often confused with remord and recours.

Key facts for records
PropertyValue
Headwordrecords
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.kɔʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,741
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of records in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for records is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,741 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de record.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for records, with forms such as "ercords", "rceords", and "reccords". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "remord", "recours", "réponds", 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 records, spelled R-E-C-O-R-D-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de record.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ercords,rceords,reccords,recodrs,recordds,recordss,recorrds,recorsd,recrods,reocrds,rrecords

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for records

Misspelling Variants of "records"

ercords7rceords7reccords8recodrs7recordds8recordss8recorrds8recorsd7
Misspelling Variants of "records"

Frequency rank: #6,741 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "records"?
"records" is spelled R-E-C-O-R-D-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.kɔʁ\.
What does "records" mean?
As a noun, "records" means: Pluriel de record.
What words are commonly confused with "records"?
"records" is commonly confused with "remord", "recours", "réponds". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "records"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "records" is \ʁə.kɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "records" come from?
"records" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.