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“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.

9 ch
recueilli
10 ch
recueillis

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?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.kœ.ji\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "recueilli" or "recueillis" show up more?
"recueilli" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,729 in our French list, against #12,235 for "recueillis". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list