rectrice
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#69,368
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
rectrice is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cheffe d’une université ou d’un autre établissement d’enseignement supérieur, dans certains pays et à certaines époques. Pronounced \ʁɛk.tʁis\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rectrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛk.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rectrice is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛk.tʁis\. Corpus data places it at rank #69,368 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rectrice in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rectrice, spelled R-E-C-T-R-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cheffe d’une université ou d’un autre établissement d’enseignement supérieur, dans certains pays et à certaines époques.
- 2Cheffe, nommée par le président de la République sur proposition des ministres en charge de ces secteurs, d’une des académies, qui sont les circonscriptions organisant l’éducation nationale, l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche en France.
- 3Épouse d’un recteur.
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Frequency rank: #69,368 in French
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