relater
\ʁə.la.te\
The verdict
“relater” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,523. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,523
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapporter, mentionner, citer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-relater · relater · French
relater · rank #37,523 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,523
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rehaussé
Nearest frequency peer: rehaussé (-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 « relater »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- refoulement
refoulement
62,481 corpus weight
- regrettant
regrettant
62,480 corpus weight
- rehaussé
rehaussé
62,479 corpus weight
- relater
relater
62,478 corpus weight
- relevaient
relevaient
62,477 corpus weight
- relooking
relooking
62,476 corpus weight
What this shows « relater » 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 | relater |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.la.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « relater »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around relater (IPA \ʁə.la.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,523 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rapporter, mentionner, citer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for relater, with forms such as "erlater", "realter", and "relaetr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rester", "relier", "relayé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is relater, spelled R-E-L-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rapporter, mentionner, citer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how relater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques journaux manquaient à la collection. C’étaient ceux qui relataient comment Charlotte, condamnée à mort, avait vu sa peine commuée en celle des travaux forcés à perpétuité. Pourquoi cette mesure de grâce ?
Veuillez me relater les faits, je vous prie.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erlater
- realter
- relaetr
- relaterr
- relatre
- relatter
- rellater
- reltaer
- rleater
- rrelater
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of relater - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).