récapituler
\ʁe.ka.pi.ty.le\
The verdict
“récapituler” is uncommon French (frequency #77,002 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,002
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résumer point par point ce que l’on a déjà dit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recapituler · récapituler · French
récapituler · rank #77,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,002
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réapparaîtra
Nearest frequency peer: réapparaîtra (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « récapituler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réaffirmée
réaffirmée
23,002 corpus weight
- réagissons
réagissons
23,001 corpus weight
- réapparaîtra
réapparaîtra
23,000 corpus weight
- récapituler
récapituler
22,999 corpus weight
- rédhibitoir…
rédhibitoires
22,998 corpus weight
- réflexologie
réflexologie
22,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « récapituler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récapituler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ka.pi.ty.le\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « récapituler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
récapituler is uncommon French at frequency #77,002 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.ka.pi.ty.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for récapituler, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is récapituler, spelled R-É-C-A-P-I-T-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Résumer point par point ce que l’on a déjà dit.
- 2Recevoir en soi, contenir, constituer la totalité de l'univers, en parlant du Christ.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how récapituler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais chaque jour de misère leur pesait davantage. Quand ils récapitulaient leurs efforts inutiles, quand ils se rappelaient leurs trente années de lutte, la défection de leurs enfants, et qu’ils voyaient leurs châteaux en Espagne aboutir à ce salon jaune dont il fallait tirer les rideaux pour en cacher la laideur, ils étaient pris de rages sourdes.
Si vous récapitulez tout cela, vous conviendrez, mon cher monsieur, qu'il y a là de quoi occuper un honnête homme.
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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