recapitulatory
"recapitulatory" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“recapitulatory” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of the nature of a recapitulation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-recapitulatory · recapitulatory · English
recapitulatory · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recapitulatory |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “recapitulatory” in English
Rare enough to double-check
recapitulatory is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of the nature of a recapitulation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for recapitulatory, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is recapitulatory, spelled R-E-C-A-P-I-T-U-L-A-T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Of the nature of a recapitulation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recapitulatory appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
recapitulatory examples
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.