recommencement
\ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“recommencement” is uncommon French (frequency #56,863 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,863
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de recommencer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recommencement · recommencement · French
recommencement · rank #56,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,863
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reco
Nearest frequency peer: reco (-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 « recommencement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- RCP
RCP
43,140 corpus weight
- reco
reco
43,139 corpus weight
- recommencem…
recommencement
43,138 corpus weight
- reconvertis
reconvertis
43,137 corpus weight
- recoupement
recoupement
43,136 corpus weight
- reculs
reculs
43,135 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recommencement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recommencement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #56,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recommencement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recommencement is uncommon French at frequency #56,863 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de recommencer.".
recommencement has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is recommencement, spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-E-N-C-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de recommencer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recommencement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On dit souvent que l’histoire est un perpétuel recommencement.
La couture de ces pièces d’étoffe n’alla pas non plus sans tâtonnements, et recommencements.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).