rectale
\ʁɛk.tal\
The verdict
“rectale” is uncommon French (frequency #66,286 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,286
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de rectal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rectale · rectale · French
rectale · rank #66,286 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,286
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recensait
Nearest frequency peer: recensait (-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 « rectale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raya
raya
33,718 corpus weight
- razor
razor
33,717 corpus weight
- recensait
recensait
33,716 corpus weight
- rectale
rectale
33,715 corpus weight
- redessiné
redessiné
33,714 corpus weight
- redondants
redondants
33,713 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rectale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rectale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛk.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rectale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rectale is uncommon French at frequency #66,286 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁɛk.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de rectal.".
rectale doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rectale, spelled R-E-C-T-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de rectal.
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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