rencontrent
\ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\
The verdict
“rencontrent” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,364. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,364
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rencontrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rencontrent · rencontrent · French
rencontrent · rank #7,364 · 18 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,364
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconnaissant
Nearest frequency peer: reconnaissant (-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 « rencontrent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ramené
ramené
92,640 corpus weight
- ravi
ravi
92,639 corpus weight
- reconnaissa…
reconnaissant
92,638 corpus weight
- rencontrent
rencontrent
92,637 corpus weight
- renouveler
renouveler
92,636 corpus weight
- ressens
ressens
92,635 corpus weight
What this shows « rencontrent » 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 | rencontrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rencontrent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around rencontrent (IPA \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,364 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for rencontrent, with forms such as "erncontrent", "recnontrent", and "renccontrent". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "rencontrer", "rencontres", "rencontrez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rencontrent, spelled R-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rencontrer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de rencontrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rencontrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elles rencontrent un corésident travaillant comme ouvrier à l’usine.
Les êtres corporels se trouvent tous ensemble dans la matière, mais les anges ne se rencontrent pas avec les êtres corporels dans une matière commune.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erncontrent
- recnontrent
- renccontrent
- rencnotrent
- renconntrent
- renconrtent
- renconternt
- rencontrennt
- rencontrentt
- rencontretn
- rencontrnet
- rencontrrent
- renconttrent
- rencotnrent
- renncontrent
- renocntrent
- rnecontrent
- rrencontrent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rencontrent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rencontrent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).