recoupement
\ʁə.kup.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“recoupement” is uncommon French (frequency #56,865 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,865
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retraites faites à chaque assise de pierre pour donner plus d’empattement et de solidité à un bâtiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recoupement · recoupement · French
recoupement · rank #56,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,865
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconvertis
Nearest frequency peer: reconvertis (-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 « recoupement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- redoublent
redoublent
43,134 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recoupement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recoupement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kup.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recoupement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recoupement is uncommon French at frequency #56,865 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.kup.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for recoupement in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is recoupement, spelled R-E-C-O-U-P-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Retraites faites à chaque assise de pierre pour donner plus d’empattement et de solidité à un bâtiment.
- 2Rapprochement de deux ou plusieurs témoignages qui, se rencontrant en un point, se confirment l’un par l’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recoupement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis lors, le journal de sœur Marie de Bon Secours nous a fourni le recoupement manquant.
Mais cette scolastique de l’espionnage, et la méthode si raisonnable des recoupements, enivrent ceux qui y participent, et encore plus ceux qui les ont inventées.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).