rencontres

/\ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,014

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

rencontres is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de rencontre. Pronounced \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\. It ranks #2,014 in French word frequency. Often confused with rencontrez and rencontrons.

Key facts for rencontres
PropertyValue
Headwordrencontres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#2,014
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rencontres is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,014 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de rencontre.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for rencontres, with forms such as "erncontres", "recnontres", and "renccontres". 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, "rencontrez", "rencontrons", "rencontre", 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 rencontres, spelled R-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de rencontre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erncontres,recnontres,renccontres,rencnotres,renconntres,renconrtes,renconters,rencontress,rencontrres,rencontrse,renconttres,rencotnres,renncontres,renocntres,rnecontres,rrencontres

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rencontres

Misspelling Variants of "rencontres"

erncontres10recnontres10renccontres11rencnotres10renconntres11renconrtes10renconters10rencontress11
Misspelling Variants of "rencontres"

Frequency rank: #2,014 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rencontres"?
"rencontres" is spelled R-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\.
What does "rencontres" mean?
As a noun, "rencontres" means: Pluriel de rencontre.
What words are commonly confused with "rencontres"?
"rencontres" is commonly confused with "rencontrez", "rencontrons", "rencontre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rencontres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rencontres" is \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rencontres" come from?
"rencontres" 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.