recourbé
French, adjective
recourbé is spelled R-E-C-O-U-R-B-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 83,718th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recourbé is a French adjective meaning “curved (back)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of recourber. Without its accent, recourbe is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does recourbé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
curved (back)
- 2
hooked
verb
- 1
past participle of recourber
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of recourbé
- recourbée feminine
- recourbés masculine plural
- recourbées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is recourbé in French?
recourbé appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).