recoudre
\ʁə.kudʁ\
The verdict
“recoudre” is uncommon French (frequency #57,547 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,547
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coudre une chose qui est décousue ou déchirée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recoudre · recoudre · French
recoudre · rank #57,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,547
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconquis
Nearest frequency peer: reconquis (-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 « recoudre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rata
rata
42,458 corpus weight
- ravagent
ravagent
42,456 corpus weight
- reconquis
reconquis
42,455 corpus weight
- recoudre
recoudre
42,454 corpus weight
- recyclée
recyclée
42,452 corpus weight
- redevenus
redevenus
42,451 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recoudre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recoudre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kudʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recoudre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recoudre is uncommon French at frequency #57,547 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.kudʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for recoudre in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is recoudre, spelled R-E-C-O-U-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Coudre une chose qui est décousue ou déchirée.
- 2Pratiquer une suture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recoudre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aidé des conseils d’Atala, je bâtis un canot, que j’enduisis de gomme de prunier, après en avoir recousu les écorces avec des racines de sapin.
Un beau matin il s’est amené ici avec une paire de brodequins à recoudre ; […].
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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