récessivité
\ʁe.se.si.vi.te\
The verdict
“récessivité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère d’un gène qui, présent, ne s’exprime pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recessivite · récessivité · French
récessivité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récessivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.se.si.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « récessivité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
récessivité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.se.si.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère d’un gène qui, présent, ne s’exprime pas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for récessivité, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 récessivité, spelled R-É-C-E-S-S-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère d’un gène qui, présent, ne s’exprime pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how récessivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En génétique, on parle de récessivité lorsqu’un allèle ne peut donner un phénotype lorsqu’il est seul représentant dans les chromosomes de la cellule considérée (sauf en cas d’haploïdie). Au contraire, on parle d’allèle dominant lorsqu’un seul allèle permet de définir un phénotype.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.