recourbée
\ʁə.kuʁ.be\
The verdict
“recourbée” is uncommon French (frequency #87,083 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,083
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de recourbé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recourbee · recourbée · French
recourbée · rank #87,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,083
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rebooter
Nearest frequency peer: rebooter (-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 « recourbée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ravalé
ravalé
12,921 corpus weight
- rebooter
rebooter
12,919 corpus weight
- recourbée
recourbée
12,918 corpus weight
- recroquevil…
recroquevillée
12,917 corpus weight
- redoublant
redoublant
12,916 corpus weight
- regorgeant
regorgeant
12,915 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recourbée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recourbée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.kuʁ.be\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recourbée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recourbée is uncommon French at frequency #87,083 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.kuʁ.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de recourbé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for recourbée, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is recourbée, spelled R-E-C-O-U-R-B-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de recourbé.
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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