rencontre
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#590
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
rencontre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Hasard, occasion qui fait trouver fortuitement une personne, une chose. Pronounced \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\. It ranks #590 in French word frequency. Often confused with rencontrer and rencontres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rencontre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rencontre is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #590 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 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 rencontre, with forms such as "erncontre", "recnontre", and "renccontre". 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, "rencontrer", "rencontres", "rencontrée", 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 rencontre, spelled R-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hasard, occasion qui fait trouver fortuitement une personne, une chose.
- 2Fait de joindre une personne en allant intentionnellement au-devant d’elle.
- 3Entrée en contact de deux corps.
- 4Conjonction ou opposition des astres.
- 5Combat singulier non prémédité.
- 6Compétition, match ou duel.
- 7Occasion, conjoncture.
- 8Trait d’esprit, une trouvaille ingénieuse d’idées ou de style.
- 9Évènement caractérisé par le passage d’un engin spatial à proximité d’un objet céleste ou d’un objet spatial.
- 10Fait de se réunir pour discuter entre pairs, ou pour découvrir une personnalité par le biais d’une série de questions.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erncontre,recnontre,renccontre,rencnotre,renconntre,renconrte,renconter,rencontrre,renconttre,rencotnre,renncontre,renocntre,rnecontre,rrencontre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rencontre
Misspelling Variants of "rencontre"
Frequency rank: #590 in French
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Nearby French words
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