recouper
\ʁə.ku.pe\
The verdict
“recouper” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,753
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couper de nouveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recouper · recouper · French
recouper · rank #48,753 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,753
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recontacter
Nearest frequency peer: recontacter (-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 « recouper »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reconnaîtra…
reconnaîtrait
51,250 corpus weight
- recontacter
recontacter
51,249 corpus weight
- recouper
recouper
51,248 corpus weight
- Reginald
Reginald
51,246 corpus weight
- relationnel…
relationnelles
51,245 corpus weight
- relogement
relogement
51,244 corpus weight
What this shows « recouper » 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 | recouper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ku.pe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recouper »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around recouper (IPA \ʁə.ku.pe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,753 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for recouper, with forms such as "ercouper", "rceouper", and "reccouper". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "reculer", "renouer", "rejouer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 recouper, spelled R-E-C-O-U-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Couper de nouveau.
- 2Vérifier un fait ou une information en comparant deux ou plusieurs sources différentes.
- 3Se rencontrer, se confirmer, correspondre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recouper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce vêtement avait été mal coupé, il a fallu le recouper.
Aux jeux de cartes, lorsqu’on n’a pas coupé net, il faut recouper.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercouper
- rceouper
- reccouper
- recopuer
- recouepr
- recouperr
- recoupper
- recoupre
- recuoper
- reocuper
- rrecouper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recouper - 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).