recht

\ʁɛçt\

/\ʁɛçt\/ adj

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The verdict

“recht” is uncommon French (frequency #67,826 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,826
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Non comparable, utilisé uniquement comme épithète, sans prédicat) Droit, de droite.

Corpus desk

Index FR-recht · recht · French

recht · rank #67,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,826
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH recorder

Nearest frequency peer: recorder (+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 « recht »

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 « recht » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for recht
PropertyValue
Headwordrecht
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁɛçt\
Letters5
Frequency rank#67,826
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « recht » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).rechttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « recorder » (#67,827), « redressements » (#67,828), « REB » (#67,823). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « recht » est au #67,826. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

recht is uncommon French at frequency #67,826 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁɛçt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for recht in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is recht, spelled R-E-C-H-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Non comparable, utilisé uniquement comme épithète, sans prédicat) Droit, de droite.
  2. 2
    De droite.
  3. 3
    Qui convient, convenable, correct, juste.
  4. 4
    Grand, fort, exprime une amplification du sens du nom.
  5. 5
    Droit, caractérise un angle de 90 degrés.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how recht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ich habe mir den rechten Arm gebrochen.
  2. Ein rechter Winkel.

Synonyms

steuerbordsgesetzesgemäßgesetzestreurechtwinklig

Antonyms

linkschlechtfalschkrummschiefillegalrechtswidrigunbestimmtspitzspitzwinkligstumpfstumpfwinkligüberstumpfgestreckt

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 "recht"?
"recht" is spelled R-E-C-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛçt\.
What does "recht" mean?
As an adjective, "recht" means: (Non comparable, utilisé uniquement comme épithète, sans prédicat) Droit, de droite.
How do you pronounce "recht"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "recht" is \ʁɛçt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "recht" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list