recroquevillé
French, adjective
recroquevillé is spelled R-E-C-R-O-Q-U-E-V-I-L-L-É (13 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 70,496th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recroquevillé is a French adjective meaning “curled up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of recroqueviller. Without its accent, recroqueville is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Racorni, plissé”.
What does recroquevillé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
curled up
verb
- 1
past participle of recroqueviller
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Racorni, plissé.
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 recroquevillé
- recroquevillée feminine
- recroquevillés masculine plural
- recroquevillées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is recroquevillé in French?
recroquevillé appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).