recueillait
\ʁə.kœ.jɛ\
The verdict
“recueillait” is uncommon French (frequency #68,606 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,606
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de recueillir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recueillait · recueillait · French
recueillait · rank #68,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,606
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recrutait
Nearest frequency peer: recrutait (-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 « recueillait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rebuté
rebuté
31,398 corpus weight
- reconfigurer
reconfigurer
31,397 corpus weight
- recrutait
recrutait
31,396 corpus weight
- recueillait
recueillait
31,395 corpus weight
- redite
redite
31,394 corpus weight
- redécorer
redécorer
31,393 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recueillait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recueillait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kœ.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recueillait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recueillait is uncommon French at frequency #68,606 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.kœ.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de recueillir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for recueillait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is recueillait, spelled R-E-C-U-E-I-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de recueillir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recueillait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les pays vignobles, le glanage des vignes constitue le hallebotage. Par le hallebotage, la famille Tonsard recueillait trois pièces de vin environ.
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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