rectangulaire
\ʁɛk.tɑ̃.ɡy.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“rectangulaire” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,738. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,738
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie les figures où il y a un angle droit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rectangulaire · rectangulaire · French
rectangulaire · rank #15,738 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,738
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recréer
Nearest frequency peer: recréer (-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 « rectangulaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- radiation
radiation
84,266 corpus weight
- rebours
rebours
84,265 corpus weight
- recréer
recréer
84,264 corpus weight
- rectangulai…
rectangulaire
84,263 corpus weight
- refroidir
refroidir
84,262 corpus weight
- reliefs
reliefs
84,261 corpus weight
What this shows « rectangulaire » 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 | rectangulaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛk.tɑ̃.ɡy.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #15,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rectangulaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around rectangulaire (IPA \ʁɛk.tɑ̃.ɡy.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,738 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for rectangulaire, with forms such as "erctangulaire", "rcetangulaire", and "recatngulaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "rectangulaires", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rectangulaire, spelled R-E-C-T-A-N-G-U-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie les figures où il y a un angle droit.
- 2Qui a la forme d’un parallélogramme rectangle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rectangulaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nicolas Oresme applique à la représentation du mouvement une représentation graphique, grâce à un système de coordonnées rectangulaires, ce qui fait de lui un précurseur de la géométrie analytique de Descartes.
Des axes rectangulaires.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erctangulaire
- rcetangulaire
- recatngulaire
- recctangulaire
- rectagnulaire
- rectanggulaire
- rectangluaire
- rectangualire
- rectangulaier
- rectangulairre
- rectangularie
- rectanguliare
- rectangullaire
- rectanngulaire
- rectanuglaire
- rectnagulaire
- recttangulaire
- retcangulaire
- rrectangulaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rectangulaire - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).