recensait
\ʁə.sɑ̃.sɛ\
The verdict
“recensait” is uncommon French (frequency #66,285 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,285
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe recenser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recensait · recensait · French
recensait · rank #66,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,285
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH razor
Nearest frequency peer: razor (-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 « recensait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ravitaillem…
ravitaillements
33,719 corpus weight
- raya
raya
33,718 corpus weight
- razor
razor
33,717 corpus weight
- recensait
recensait
33,716 corpus weight
- rectale
rectale
33,715 corpus weight
- redessiné
redessiné
33,714 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recensait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recensait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.sɑ̃.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recensait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recensait is uncommon French at frequency #66,285 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.sɑ̃.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe recenser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for recensait, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is recensait, spelled R-E-C-E-N-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe recenser.
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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