rectal
\ʁɛk.tal\
The verdict
“rectal” is uncommon French (frequency #52,940 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,940
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au rectum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rectal · rectal · French
rectal · rank #52,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,940
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redressa
Nearest frequency peer: redressa (+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 « rectal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- radioprotec…
radioprotection
47,064 corpus weight
- Raspoutine
Raspoutine
47,063 corpus weight
- rectal
rectal
47,061 corpus weight
- redressa
redressa
47,060 corpus weight
- register
register
47,059 corpus weight
- reiner
reiner
47,058 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rectal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rectal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛk.tal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rectal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rectal is uncommon French at frequency #52,940 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁɛk.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au rectum.".
rectal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rectal, spelled R-E-C-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au rectum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rectal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des palpations rectales régulières ont été effectuées pour estimer le niveau de développement des organes génitaux des velles.
This word in other languages
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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