récupérer
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,335
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
récupérer is aFrenchverb. It means: Recouvrer. Pronounced \ʁe.ky.pe.ʁe\. It ranks #2,335 in French word frequency. Often confused with repérer and récupérés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récupérer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ky.pe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for récupérer is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.ky.pe.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,335 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for récupérer, with forms such as "rcéupérer", "recuperer", and "rrécupérer". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "repérer", "récupérés", "rémunérer", 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 récupérer, spelled R-É-C-U-P-É-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recouvrer.
- 2Retrouver des forces après un effort physique ou une maladie.
- 3Rétablir un usage pour un objet hors service, redonner une nouvelle fraicheur pour une chose vieillie.
- 4Rattraper les jours de travail pendant lesquels on ne travaille pas.
- 5Collecter.
- 6Se remettre en possession de ce qu’on a perdu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rcéupérer,recuperer,rrécupérer,réccupérer,récpuérer,récuppérer,récupréer,récupéerr,récupérerr,récupérre,récupérrer,récuéprer,réucpérer,ércupérer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for récupérer
Misspelling Variants of "récupérer"
Frequency rank: #2,335 in French
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Nearby French words
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