rechignent

\ʁə.ʃiɲ\

/\ʁə.ʃiɲ\/ verb

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The verdict

“rechignent” is uncommon French (frequency #60,329 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,329
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rechigner.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rechignent · rechignent · French

rechignent · rank #60,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,329
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH recommençait

Nearest frequency peer: recommençait (+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 « rechignent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rechignent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for rechignent
PropertyValue
Headwordrechignent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.ʃiɲ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#60,329
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « rechignent » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.rechignenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « recommençait » (#60,330), « Redding » (#60,331), « Raúl » (#60,326). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rechignent » est au #60,329. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

rechignent is uncommon French at frequency #60,329 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ʃiɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rechignent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rechignent, spelled R-E-C-H-I-G-N-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rechigner.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de rechigner.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rechignent"?
"rechignent" is spelled R-E-C-H-I-G-N-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.ʃiɲ\.
What does "rechignent" mean?
As a verb, "rechignent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rechigner.
How do you pronounce "rechignent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rechignent" is \ʁə.ʃiɲ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rechignent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rechignent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

renfermait#60,336requérante#60,337réinvestis#60,354rétraction#60,358

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list