recouvraient
\ʁə.ku.vʁɛ\
The verdict
“recouvraient” is uncommon French (frequency #76,068 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,068
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de recouvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recouvraient · recouvraient · French
recouvraient · rank #76,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,068
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recompter
Nearest frequency peer: recompter (-2 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 « recouvraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recaser
recaser
23,937 corpus weight
- recommença
recommença
23,936 corpus weight
- recompter
recompter
23,935 corpus weight
- recouvraient
recouvraient
23,933 corpus weight
- refermées
refermées
23,930 corpus weight
- refroidisse…
refroidisseur
23,928 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recouvraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recouvraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ku.vʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recouvraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recouvraient is uncommon French at frequency #76,068 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ku.vʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de recouvrir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for recouvraient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 recouvraient, spelled R-E-C-O-U-V-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de recouvrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recouvraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pailles, dont les couches épaisses recouvraient entièrement le sol de la cour, se doraient peu à peu d’un jaune pâle sous la lueur grandissante du crépuscule.
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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