recroquevillée

\ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je\

/\ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je\/ adj

The verdict

“recroquevillée” is uncommon French (frequency #87,084 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#87,084
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de recroquevillé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-recroquevillee · recroquevillée · French

recroquevillée · rank #87,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #87,084
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH recourbée

Nearest frequency peer: recourbée (-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 « recroquevillée »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recroquevillée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for recroquevillée
PropertyValue
Headwordrecroquevillée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je\
Letters14
Frequency rank#87,084
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « recroquevillée » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).recroquevilléetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « recourbée » (#87,083), « redoublant » (#87,085), « rebooter » (#87,082). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « recroquevillée » est au #87,084. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

recroquevillée is uncommon French at frequency #87,084 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de recroquevillé.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for recroquevillée, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is recroquevillée, spelled R-E-C-R-O-Q-U-E-V-I-L-L-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de recroquevillé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how recroquevillée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. D’ailleurs, tous les pantalons étaient à sous-pieds, et le sien se mariait très mal avec les talons de ses bottes, pour lesquels les bords de l’étoffe recroquevillée manifestaient une violente antipathie.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "recroquevillée"?
"recroquevillée" is spelled R-E-C-R-O-Q-U-E-V-I-L-L-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je\.
What does "recroquevillée" mean?
As an adjective, "recroquevillée" means: Féminin singulier de recroquevillé.
How do you pronounce "recroquevillée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "recroquevillée" is \ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "recroquevillée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list