récitait
\ʁe.si.tɛ\
The verdict
“récitait” is uncommon French (frequency #74,352 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,352
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de réciter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recitait · récitait · French
récitait · rank #74,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,352
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réaffirmation
Nearest frequency peer: réaffirmation (-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 « récitait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réaffirmati…
réaffirmation
25,650 corpus weight
- récitait
récitait
25,649 corpus weight
- récupérateu…
récupérateurs
25,648 corpus weight
- réflexif
réflexif
25,647 corpus weight
- référendair…
référendaires
25,646 corpus weight
- régenter
régenter
25,645 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « récitait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récitait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.si.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « récitait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
récitait is uncommon French at frequency #74,352 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.si.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de réciter.".
No misspelling variants are generated for récitait in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is récitait, spelled R-É-C-I-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de réciter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how récitait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Flavie admira cet être caméléonesque : un genou en terre, les mains en croix sur la poitrine et les yeux levés vers le ciel, dans une extase religieuse, il récitait une prière, il était le catholique le plus fervent, il se signa.
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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