recommença
\ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.sa\
The verdict
“recommença” is uncommon French (frequency #76,065 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,065
- 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 recommencer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recommenca · recommença · French
recommença · rank #76,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,065
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recaser
Nearest frequency peer: recaser (-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 « recommença »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rastignac
Rastignac
23,942 corpus weight
- rayonnants
rayonnants
23,940 corpus weight
- recaser
recaser
23,937 corpus weight
- recommença
recommença
23,936 corpus weight
- recompter
recompter
23,935 corpus weight
- recouvraient
recouvraient
23,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recommença » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recommença |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.sa\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recommença » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recommença is uncommon French at frequency #76,065 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de recommencer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for recommença in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is recommença, spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-E-N-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de recommencer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recommença appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Camaret recommença à croupionner et à s’immobiliser.
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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