rechigner
\ʁə.ʃi.ɲe\
The verdict
“rechigner” is uncommon French (frequency #64,041 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,041
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Témoigner par l’air de son visage la mauvaise humeur où l’on est, le chagrin, la répugnance que l’on éprouve.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rechigner · rechigner · French
rechigner · rank #64,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,041
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH randos
Nearest frequency peer: randos (-3 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 « rechigner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quolibets
quolibets
35,965 corpus weight
- randos
randos
35,963 corpus weight
- rechigner
rechigner
35,960 corpus weight
- redéfinit
redéfinit
35,957 corpus weight
- Regal
Regal
35,956 corpus weight
- rejettes
rejettes
35,955 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rechigner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rechigner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ʃi.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rechigner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rechigner is uncommon French at frequency #64,041 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ʃi.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rechigner, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rechigner, spelled R-E-C-H-I-G-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Témoigner par l’air de son visage la mauvaise humeur où l’on est, le chagrin, la répugnance que l’on éprouve.
- 2Mettre de la mauvaise volonté, exprimer des réticences à faire quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rechigner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Madelon s’y mit en rechignant.
Moi qui détestais de danser, j’acceptais sans rechigner toutes les invitations, et presque chaque soir revêtais mon smoking ou mon habit.
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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