recourber
French, verb/ʁə.kuʁ.be/
recourber is spelled R-E-C-O-U-R-B-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recourber is a French verb meaning “to bend (back), curl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Courber en rond par l’extrémité, par le bout”.
What does recourber mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bend (back), curl
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Courber en rond par l’extrémité, par le bout. 2. Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of recourber
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- recourbant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- recourbé participle past
- recourbe first-person indicative present
- recourbes indicative present second-person
- recourbons first-person indicative plural
- recourbez indicative plural present
- recourbent indicative plural present
- recourbais first-person imperfect indicative
- recourbait imperfect indicative singular
- recourbions first-person imperfect indicative
- recourbiez imperfect indicative plural
- recourbaient imperfect indicative plural
- recourbai first-person historic indicative
- recourbas historic indicative past
- recourba historic indicative past
- recourbâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recourber?
- /ʁə.kuʁ.be/
- \ʁə.kuʁ.be\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is recourber in French?
recourber appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).