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reconnoître

reconnoître is the rare spelling of reconnoitre.

Meaning of reconnoitre

Verb

reconnoitre (third-person singular simple present reconnoitres, present participle reconnoitring, simple past and past participle reconnoitred)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To perform a reconnaissance (of an area; an enemy position); to scout with the aim of gaining information.
    • Our scout will reconnoitre the path ahead of our troops.
  2. (obsolete) To recognise.
    • As to my person, it will not be so easy to reconnoitre it, for I question whether any of it will remain1765, Horace Walpole, The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq

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Forms of reconnoître

third-person singular presentreconnoîtres
present participlereconnoîtring
past participlereconnoîtred
pastreconnoîtred

Questions about reconnoître

What is reconnoître the rare spelling of?
Reconnoître is the rare spelling of reconnoitre.

Words near reconnoître in the dictionary

  1. reconnoitrers
  2. reconnoitres
  3. reconnoitring
  4. reconnoitringly
  5. reconnoitrings
  6. reconnoître
  7. reconoiter
  8. reconquer
  9. reconquerable
  10. reconquered
  11. reconquering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reconnoître (page history and authors); reconnoitre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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