reculant
\ʁə.ky.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“reculant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,956. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,956
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe reculer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reculant · reculant · French
reculant · rank #40,956 · 12 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,956
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rectangles
Nearest frequency peer: rectangles (-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 « reculant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- recent
recent
59,048 corpus weight
- recommencera
recommencera
59,047 corpus weight
- rectangles
rectangles
59,046 corpus weight
- reculant
reculant
59,045 corpus weight
- refroidis
refroidis
59,044 corpus weight
- rejeton
rejeton
59,042 corpus weight
What this shows « reculant » 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 | reculant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ky.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reculant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around reculant (IPA \ʁə.ky.lɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,956 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe reculer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for reculant, with forms such as "erculant", "rceulant", and "recculant". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "roulant", "remuant", "réglant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is reculant, spelled R-E-C-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe reculer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erculant
- rceulant
- recculant
- recluant
- recualnt
- reculannt
- reculantt
- reculatn
- recullant
- reculnat
- reuclant
- rreculant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reculant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).