récessif
\ʁe.se.sif\
The verdict
“récessif” is uncommon French (frequency #77,895 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,895
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui diminue, qui va en arrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recessif · récessif · French
récessif · rank #77,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,895
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rédigeait
Nearest frequency peer: rédigeait (+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 « récessif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rugissant
rugissant
22,109 corpus weight
- rushes
rushes
22,108 corpus weight
- récessif
récessif
22,106 corpus weight
- rédigeait
rédigeait
22,105 corpus weight
- réduisaient
réduisaient
22,104 corpus weight
- réinvestit
réinvestit
22,102 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « récessif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récessif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.se.sif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « récessif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
récessif is uncommon French at frequency #77,895 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁe.se.sif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for récessif in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is récessif, spelled R-É-C-E-S-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui diminue, qui va en arrière.
- 2Qualifie un gène qui ne s’exprime pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how récessif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des intervalles récessifs.
Les géniteurs de résistance au froid : « Champagne » et « Austria Winter » renferment le plus grand nombre de gènes récessifs. Les pois d'hiver actuels en possèdent moins et les pois de printemps en sont pratiquement dépourvus.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).