received
\ɹɪˈsiːvd\
The verdict
“received” is uncommon French (frequency #86,098 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,098
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit et participe passé du verbe receive (« recevoir »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-received · received · French
received · rank #86,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,098
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rebattu
Nearest frequency peer: rebattu (-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 « received »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rayez
rayez
13,907 corpus weight
- rebattu
rebattu
13,904 corpus weight
- received
received
13,903 corpus weight
- rechargent
rechargent
13,902 corpus weight
- recollé
recollé
13,901 corpus weight
- recomposé
recomposé
13,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « received » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | received |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɹɪˈsiːvd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « received » en français
Rare enough to double-check
received is uncommon French at frequency #86,098 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɹɪˈsiːvd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prétérit et participe passé du verbe receive (« recevoir »).".
received doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is received, spelled R-E-C-E-I-V-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit et participe passé du verbe receive (« recevoir »).
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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