recompter
\ʁə.kɔ̃.te\
The verdict
“recompter” is uncommon French (frequency #76,066 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,066
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compter de nouveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recompter · recompter · French
recompter · rank #76,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,066
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recommença
Nearest frequency peer: recommença (-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 « recompter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- refermées
refermées
23,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recompter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recompter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recompter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recompter is uncommon French at frequency #76,066 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.kɔ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Compter de nouveau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for recompter in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is recompter, spelled R-E-C-O-M-P-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Compter de nouveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recompter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je puis m’être trompé, recomptez cette somme.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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