recurved
"recurved" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“recurved” is uncommon English (frequency #78,064 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,064
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.
Corpus desk
Index EN-recurved · recurved · English
recurved · rank #78,064 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,064
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH RBG
Nearest frequency peer: RBG (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “recurved”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- qubit
qubit
21,945 corpus weight
- Rabaul
Rabaul
21,943 corpus weight
- RBG
RBG
21,938 corpus weight
- recurved
recurved
21,937 corpus weight
- regicide
regicide
21,932 corpus weight
- regolith
regolith
21,931 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “recurved” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recurved |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “recurved” in English
Rare enough to double-check
recurved is uncommon English at frequency #78,064 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for recurved, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is recurved, spelled R-E-C-U-R-V-E-D.
Definition
- 1Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recurved appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We will not, however, travel on his "elephants' snouts in coat armour," beyond a field or, with "the proboscide of an elephant, erected, flexed and recurved gules, issuing out of a pierced place; towards the basis thereof, a rose-sprig vertant et revertant, about the trunk to the middle thereof proper.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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