recherche
/ʁǝ.ʃɛʁʃ/
The verdict
“recherche” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,232 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,232
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Investigación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-recherche · recherche · Spanish
recherche · rank #67,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,232
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH recalcando
Nearest frequency peer: recalcando (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “recherche”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- raye
raye
32,773 corpus weight
- reactivado
reactivado
32,771 corpus weight
- recalcando
recalcando
32,770 corpus weight
- recherche
recherche
32,769 corpus weight
- recitación
recitación
32,768 corpus weight
- recordá
recordá
32,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “recherche” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recherche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʁǝ.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “recherche” en español
Rare enough to double-check
recherche is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,232 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʁǝ.ʃɛʁʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for recherche, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is recherche, spelled R-E-C-H-E-R-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Investigación.
- 2Exploración.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).