Which to use
“reculé” is an adjective and “rotule” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #16,720
- “reculé” frequency rank
- #39,517
- “rotule” frequency rank
- 56237
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | reculé | rotule |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est éloigné, lointain. | Petit os plat, triangulaire, à angles arrondis, placé en avant du genou, à l’endroit où le fémur s’articule avec le tibia. |
Letter map: reculé vs rotule
Shared letters muted; letters that set reculé and rotule apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. reculé and rotule follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Role in the sentence - reculé and rotule
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reculé is anadjective and rotuleanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56237, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
reculé is recorded at frequency rank #16,720, classified as anadj. rotule is at rank #39,517, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁɔ.tyl\.
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 56237, this pair ranks #122,356 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of reculé vs rotule
Shared letters: elru. Private to "reculé": cé. Private to "rotule": ot.
"reculé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "rotule" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- rotule ← ortule · rotlue · rottule · rotuel · rotulle · routle · rrotule · rtoule
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "reculé" for "rotule" ever safe?
Frequency check: "reculé" vs "rotule" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "reculé" and "rotule".
- Full dictionary entry for "reculé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rotule" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #122,356 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "reculé" and "rotule" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rotule vs rouble". 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 #122,356 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.