recréant
\ʁə.kʁe.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“recréant” is uncommon French (frequency #74,327 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,327
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de recréer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recreant · recréant · French
recréant · rank #74,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,327
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recrutez
Nearest frequency peer: recrutez (-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 « recréant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ratissé
ratissé
25,677 corpus weight
- ravitailleur
ravitailleur
25,676 corpus weight
- recrutez
recrutez
25,675 corpus weight
- recréant
recréant
25,674 corpus weight
- reflétée
reflétée
25,673 corpus weight
- reigns
reigns
25,671 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recréant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recréant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kʁe.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recréant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recréant is uncommon French at frequency #74,327 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.kʁe.ɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de recréer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for recréant in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 recréant, spelled R-E-C-R-É-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de recréer.
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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