récollet
The verdict
“récollet” is uncommon French (frequency #95,273 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,273
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moine de l'étroite observance de saint François, issus d'une réforme de l'ordre franciscain accomplie en Espagne au XVᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recollet · récollet · French
récollet · rank #95,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,273
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réclameront
Nearest frequency peer: réclameront (-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 « récollet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réadmission
réadmission
4,730 corpus weight
- réclameront
réclameront
4,729 corpus weight
- récollet
récollet
4,728 corpus weight
- réconfortan…
réconfortants
4,727 corpus weight
- récusant
récusant
4,726 corpus weight
- rédactionne…
rédactionnelles
4,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « récollet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récollet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « récollet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
récollet is uncommon French at frequency #95,273 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for récollet in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is récollet, spelled R-É-C-O-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Moine de l'étroite observance de saint François, issus d'une réforme de l'ordre franciscain accomplie en Espagne au XVᵉ siècle.
- 2Passereau de la famille des Bombycillidae, du genre Ptilogonys.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how récollet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourquoi M. de Carvalho, qui détestait les jésuites, laissait-il en repos les cordeliers, les jacobins et les récollets, sinon parce qu’il trouvait les jésuites en son chemin, et que les autres végétaient en paix dans leurs couvents sans faire à l’État ni bien ni mal ?
Il faut savoir que la légende de Saint-Roch a été amenée par les récollets, qui lui vouaient une admiration particulière.
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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