I was looking at Azure's REST API docs and I couldn't find any major differences between the two, as both refer to databases which can be "brought back to life" after some sort of failure or deletion of the databases.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/sql/restorabledroppeddatabases/get https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/sql/recoverabledatabases/get