Which to use
“recueilli” and “recueillis” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,729
- “recueilli” frequency rank
- #12,235
- “recueillis” frequency rank
- 21964
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recueilli | recueillis |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Concentré, méditatif, qui est dans le recueillement. | Masculin pluriel de recueilli. |
Same sound, different letters: recueilli vs recueillis
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. recueilli runs 9 letters (CVCVVVCCV) against recueillis's 10 (CVCVVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - recueilli and recueillis
This is the hard kind. recueilli and recueillis are pronounced identically (\ʁə.kœ.ji\) and both work as anadjective. 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 extra letter(s) - “recueilli” sits inside “recueillis”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21964, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recueilli is recorded at frequency rank #9,729, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.kœ.ji\. recueillis is at rank #12,235, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.kœ.ji\.
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 21964, this pair ranks #360,501 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of recueilli vs recueillis
Shared letters: ceilru. Private to "recueilli": -. Private to "recueillis": s.
"recueilli" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVVCCV · "recueillis" · 10 letters · shape CVCVVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- recueilli ← ercueilli · rceueilli · reccueilli · receuilli · recueili · recueilil · recuelili · recuielli
- recueillis ← ercueillis · rceueillis · reccueillis · receuillis · recueilils · recueilis · recueilliss · recueillsi
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "recueilli" and "recueillis" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "recueilli" or "recueillis" show up more?
Useful next steps
"recueilli" and "recueillis" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "recueilli" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "recueillis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #360,501 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "recueilli" and "recueillis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recueillie vs recueillis". 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 #360,501 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.