recueillir

/\ʁə.kœ.jiʁ\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,141

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

recueillir is aFrenchverb. It means: Collectionner ; collecter ; recevoir. Pronounced \ʁə.kœ.jiʁ\. It ranks #8,141 in French word frequency. Often confused with recueillis and recueilli.

Key facts for recueillir
PropertyValue
Headwordrecueillir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.kœ.jiʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#8,141
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for recueillir is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kœ.jiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,141 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for recueillir, with forms such as "ercueillir", "rceueillir", and "reccueillir". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "recueillis", "recueilli", "recueille", 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 recueillir, spelled R-E-C-U-E-I-L-L-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Collectionner ; collecter ; recevoir.
  2. 2
    Compiler, réunir en un corps plusieurs choses de même nature éparses dans un auteur, dans plusieurs auteurs.
  3. 3
    Recevoir ce qui tombe, ce qui découle.
  4. 4
    Recevoir humainement et charitablement chez soi ceux qui sont dans le besoin.
  5. 5
    Rassembler les fruits d’une terre, en faire la récolte ; on dit plutôt « récolter ».
  6. 6
    Rassembler les fruits d’une terre, en faire la récolte ; on dit plutôt « récolter ».
  7. 7
    Recevoir par voie d’hérédité.
  8. 8
    Rassembler, ramasser des choses dispersées.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ercueillir,rceueillir,reccueillir,receuillir,recueililr,recueilir,recueillirr,recueillri,recuelilir,recuiellir,reuceillir,rrecueillir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recueillir

Misspelling Variants of "recueillir"

ercueillir10rceueillir10reccueillir11receuillir10recueililr10recueilir9recueillirr11recueillri10
Misspelling Variants of "recueillir"

Frequency rank: #8,141 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "recueillir"?
"recueillir" is spelled R-E-C-U-E-I-L-L-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.kœ.jiʁ\.
What does "recueillir" mean?
As a verb, "recueillir" means: Collectionner ; collecter ; recevoir.
What words are commonly confused with "recueillir"?
"recueillir" is commonly confused with "recueillis", "recueilli", "recueille". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "recueillir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "recueillir" is \ʁə.kœ.jiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "recueillir" come from?
"recueillir" 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.