rechute
French, noun
rechute is spelled R-E-C-H-U-T-E (7 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,512th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rechute is a French feminine noun meaning “relapse, recurrence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, rechuté is a different word: “past participle of rechuter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Seconde chute, nouvelle chute”.
What does rechute mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerelapse, recurrence
verb
- 1
past participle of rechuter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Seconde chute, nouvelle chute. 2. Retour d’une maladie dont la guérison était récente et incomplète. 3. Retour au péché ou, en général, à la même faute.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rechute
- rechutes plural
- rechutée feminine
- rechutés masculine plural
- rechutées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rechute
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rechute in French?
rechute appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).