rescousse
\ʁɛs.kus\
The verdict
“rescousse” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,743. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,743
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aide, secours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rescousse · rescousse · French
rescousse · rank #24,743 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,743
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reproductions
Nearest frequency peer: reproductions (-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 « rescousse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- relaxation
relaxation
75,261 corpus weight
- remplaçants
remplaçants
75,260 corpus weight
- reproductio…
reproductions
75,259 corpus weight
- rescousse
rescousse
75,258 corpus weight
- rest
rest
75,257 corpus weight
- reverra
reverra
75,256 corpus weight
What this shows « rescousse » 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 | rescousse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.kus\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rescousse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around rescousse (IPA \ʁɛs.kus\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,743 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Aide, secours.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for rescousse, with forms such as "erscousse", "recsousse", and "resccousse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "repoussé", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rescousse, spelled R-E-S-C-O-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Aide, secours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rescousse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beaucoup de gens sont venus à la rescousse, on me disait que j’avais tort de ne pas aller à Guermantes, que je me donnais l’air d’un malotru, d’un vieil ours.
Un homme chétif et décoloré, qui appela sa femme à la rescousse dès que fut prononcé le mot police.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erscousse
- recsousse
- resccousse
- rescosuse
- rescouse
- rescouses
- rescuosse
- resocusse
- resscousse
- rrescousse
- rsecousse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rescousse - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rescousse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).