Which to use
“recouvré” and “recouvrer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #46,402
- “recouvré” frequency rank
- #27,933
- “recouvrer” frequency rank
- 74335
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recouvré | recouvrer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de recouvrer. | Retrouver, rentrer en possession ; acquérir de nouveau une chose qu’on avait perdue. |
Same sound, different letters: recouvré vs recouvrer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. recouvré runs 8 letters (CVCVVCCV) against recouvrer's 9 (CVCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: recouvré vs recouvrer
This is the hard kind. recouvré and recouvrer are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ku.vʁe\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74335, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recouvré is recorded at frequency rank #46,402, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ku.vʁe\. recouvrer is at rank #27,933, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ku.vʁe\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 74335, this pair ranks #37,485 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of recouvré vs recouvrer
Shared letters: ceoruv. Private to "recouvré": é. Private to "recouvrer": -.
"recouvré" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV · "recouvrer" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- recouvrer ← ercouvrer · rceouvrer · reccouvrer · recourver · recouverr · recouvrerr · recouvrre · recouvrrer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "recouvré" and "recouvrer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "recouvré" or "recouvrer"?
After this comparison
"recouvré" and "recouvrer" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "recouvré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "recouvrer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #37,485 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "recouvré" and "recouvrer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recoupe vs recouvré". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #37,485 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.