Which to use
“recruté” and “recrutent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,930
- “recruté” frequency rank
- #23,339
- “recrutent” frequency rank
- 34269
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recruté | recrutent |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de recruter. | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de recruter. |
Where the eye mixes recruté and recrutent
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. recruté runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against recrutent's 9 (CVCCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Why the eye confuses recruté with recrutent
A purely visual mix-up. recruté (\ʁə.kʁy.te\) and recrutent (\ʁə.kʁyt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34269, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recruté is recorded at frequency rank #10,930, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.kʁy.te\. recrutent is at rank #23,339, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.kʁyt\.
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 34269, this pair ranks #285,002 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of recruté vs recrutent
Shared letters: certu. Private to "recruté": é. Private to "recrutent": n.
"recruté" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "recrutent" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- recrutent ← ercrutent · rcerutent · reccrutent · recrrutent · recrtuent · recruetnt · recrutennt · recrutentt
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "recruté" for "recrutent" ever safe?
Frequency check: "recruté" vs "recrutent" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "recruté" and "recrutent" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "recruté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "recrutent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #285,002 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "recruté" and "recrutent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recrutent vs recrutons". 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 #285,002 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.