récompensait
\ʁe.kɔ̃.pɑ̃.sɛ\
The verdict
“récompensait” is uncommon French (frequency #85,243 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,243
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de récompenser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recompensait · récompensait · French
récompensait · rank #85,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,243
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réchappe
Nearest frequency peer: réchappe (-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 « récompensait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ruz
ruz
14,762 corpus weight
- RVB
RVB
14,761 corpus weight
- récapitulat…
récapitulation
14,760 corpus weight
- réchappe
réchappe
14,759 corpus weight
- récompensait
récompensait
14,758 corpus weight
- référente
référente
14,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « récompensait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récompensait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.kɔ̃.pɑ̃.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #85,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « récompensait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
récompensait is uncommon French at frequency #85,243 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.kɔ̃.pɑ̃.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de récompenser.".
Zero misspellings are on record for récompensait in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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'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 récompensait, spelled R-É-C-O-M-P-E-N-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de récompenser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how récompensait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les journalistes, dont il récompensait, de son vivant, les tumultueux éloges, se taisent aujourd’hui.
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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