rencontrer

/\ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁe\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,374

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

rencontrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Trouver en chemin une personne ou une chose. Pronounced \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁe\. It ranks #1,374 in French word frequency. Often confused with rencontres and rencontrez.

Key facts for rencontrer
PropertyValue
Headwordrencontrer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁe\
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,374
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rencontrer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rencontrer is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,374 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for rencontrer, with forms such as "erncontrer", "recnontrer", and "renccontrer". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "rencontres", "rencontrez", "rencontrera", 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 rencontrer, spelled R-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Trouver en chemin une personne ou une chose.
  2. 2
    Être bien ou mal servi par les événements dans quelque affaire ; deviner juste ou se tromper dans ses conjectures.
  3. 3
    Commencer à trouver la piste du gibier, en parlant des chiens.
  4. 4
    Intersecter.
  5. 5
    Se heurter, se choquer.
  6. 6
    Avoir un combat singulier.
  7. 7
    Avoir les mêmes pensées qu’un autre sur un même sujet.
  8. 8
    Exister ; être trouvé ; se trouver ; paraître.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erncontrer,recnontrer,renccontrer,rencnotrer,renconntrer,renconrter,renconterr,rencontrerr,rencontrrer,renconttrer,rencotnrer,renncontrer,renocntrer,rnecontrer,rrencontrer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rencontrer

Misspelling Variants of "rencontrer"

erncontrer10recnontrer10renccontrer11rencnotrer10renconntrer11renconrter10renconterr10rencontrerr11
Misspelling Variants of "rencontrer"

Frequency rank: #1,374 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rencontrer"?
"rencontrer" is spelled R-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁe\.
What does "rencontrer" mean?
As a verb, "rencontrer" means: Trouver en chemin une personne ou une chose.
What words are commonly confused with "rencontrer"?
"rencontrer" is commonly confused with "rencontres", "rencontrez", "rencontrera". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rencontrer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rencontrer" is \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rencontrer" come from?
"rencontrer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.