récrire
French, verb/ʁe.kʁiʁ/
récrire is spelled R-É-C-R-I-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 89,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Récrire is a French verb meaning “alternative form of réécrire (“to rewrite”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de réécrire”.
What does récrire mean in English?
verb
- 1
alternative form of réécrire (“to rewrite”)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante de réécrire.
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 récrire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- récrivant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- récrit participle past
- récris first-person indicative present
- récrivons first-person indicative plural
- récrivez indicative plural present
- récrivent indicative plural present
- récrivais first-person imperfect indicative
- récrivait imperfect indicative singular
- récrivions first-person imperfect indicative
- récriviez imperfect indicative plural
- récrivaient imperfect indicative plural
- récrivis first-person historic indicative
- récrivit historic indicative past
- récrivîmes first-person historic indicative
- récrivîtes historic indicative past
- récrivirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce récrire?
- /ʁe.kʁiʁ/
- \ʁe.kʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to récrire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is récrire in French?
récrire appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).