reckless
\ˈrek.lis\
The verdict
“reckless” is uncommon French (frequency #93,156 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,156
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Téméraire, au comportement inconscient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reckless · reckless · French
reckless · rank #93,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,156
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rechanges
Nearest frequency peer: rechanges (-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 « reckless »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rebeus
rebeus
6,848 corpus weight
- recalculer
recalculer
6,847 corpus weight
- rechanges
rechanges
6,846 corpus weight
- reckless
reckless
6,845 corpus weight
- recyclant
recyclant
6,844 corpus weight
- regius
regius
6,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reckless » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reckless |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈrek.lis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reckless » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reckless is uncommon French at frequency #93,156 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈrek.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Téméraire, au comportement inconscient.".
No misspelling variants are generated for reckless in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is reckless, spelled R-E-C-K-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Téméraire, au comportement inconscient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reckless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
and a few of the more reckless hoisted the Jolly Rodger at the mizzen,...
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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