réclama
\ʁe.klɑ.ma\
The verdict
“réclama” is uncommon French (frequency #66,318 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,318
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de réclamer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reclama · réclama · French
réclama · rank #66,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,318
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH récitatif
Nearest frequency peer: récitatif (-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 « réclama »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Réaumur
Réaumur
33,686 corpus weight
- réchauffée
réchauffée
33,685 corpus weight
- récitatif
récitatif
33,684 corpus weight
- réclama
réclama
33,683 corpus weight
- récusation
récusation
33,682 corpus weight
- référencée
référencée
33,681 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « réclama » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réclama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.klɑ.ma\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « réclama » en français
Rare enough to double-check
réclama is uncommon French at frequency #66,318 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.klɑ.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de réclamer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for réclama in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 réclama, spelled R-É-C-L-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de réclamer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how réclama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Mexicain, qui avait vécu longtemps dans la forêt, réclama pour lui l’estomac des quadrumanes dont personne, d’ailleurs, ne voulait.
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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