récidivent
\ʁe.si.div\
The verdict
“récidivent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,141 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,141
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe récidiver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recidivent · récidivent · French
récidivent · rank #86,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,141
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réchauffés
Nearest frequency peer: réchauffés (-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 « récidivent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réagissaient
réagissaient
13,863 corpus weight
- récalcitran…
récalcitrante
13,862 corpus weight
- réchauffés
réchauffés
13,861 corpus weight
- récidivent
récidivent
13,860 corpus weight
- récitée
récitée
13,859 corpus weight
- réjouisse
réjouisse
13,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « récidivent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récidivent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.si.div\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « récidivent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
récidivent is uncommon French at frequency #86,141 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.si.div\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
récidivent has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 récidivent, spelled R-É-C-I-D-I-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe récidiver.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe récidiver.
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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