récalcitrant
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,174
in French word usage
Misspellings
20
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
récalcitrant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui résiste avec opiniâtreté ; qui ne se laisse pas faire. Often confused with récalcitrants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récalcitrant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #48,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for récalcitrant is 12 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #48,174 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for récalcitrant, with forms such as "rcéalcitrant", "recalcitrant", and "rrécalcitrant". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "récalcitrants", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is récalcitrant, spelled R-É-C-A-L-C-I-T-R-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui résiste avec opiniâtreté ; qui ne se laisse pas faire.
- 2Qui résiste, qu'on ne peut agencer à son gré, en parlant d'une chose.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rcéalcitrant,recalcitrant,rrécalcitrant,réaclcitrant,récaclitrant,récalccitrant,récalcirtant,récalcitarnt,récalcitrannt,récalcitrantt,récalcitratn,récalcitrnat,récalcitrrant,récalcittrant,récalctirant,récalictrant,récallcitrant,réccalcitrant,réclacitrant,ércalcitrant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for récalcitrant
Misspelling Variants of "récalcitrant"
Frequency rank: #48,174 in French
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