rectum
\ʁɛk.tɔm\
The verdict
“rectum” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,278
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dernière partie du gros intestin, qui aboutit à l'anus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rectum · rectum · French
rectum · rank #34,278 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,278
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconvertir
Nearest frequency peer: reconvertir (-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 « rectum »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rayée
rayée
65,726 corpus weight
- recompositi…
recomposition
65,725 corpus weight
- reconvertir
reconvertir
65,724 corpus weight
- rectum
rectum
65,723 corpus weight
- recyclés
recyclés
65,722 corpus weight
- redistribuer
redistribuer
65,721 corpus weight
What this shows « rectum » 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 | rectum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛk.tɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rectum »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around rectum (IPA \ʁɛk.tɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,278 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dernière partie du gros intestin, qui aboutit à l'anus.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rectum, with forms such as "erctum", "rcetum", and "recctum". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "reçu", "recul", "reçus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rectum, spelled R-E-C-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1Dernière partie du gros intestin, qui aboutit à l'anus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rectum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il entraîna le mulet, qui laissa tomber quelques brioches et, pour finir, mit son rectum à l'envers, sous la forme d'une tomate. Je crus qu'il allait en mourir, mais mon père me rassura : « Il fait ça par hygiène, me dit-il. C'est sa façon à lui d'être propre. »
L’intima du rectum est perméable à l'eau, aux sels minéraux, aux sucres et aux acides aminés. Avec les tubes de Malpighi, l’iléum et le rectum constituent le système excréteur de l'insecte, excrétant entre autres les urates et l’acide urique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erctum
- rcetum
- recctum
- rectmu
- recttum
- rectumm
- recutm
- retcum
- rrectum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rectum - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).