recueillir
French, verb/ʁə.kœ.jiʁ/
recueillir is spelled R-E-C-U-E-I-L-L-I-R (10 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,090th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recueillir is a French verb meaning “to collect, gather” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Collectionner ; collecter ; recevoir”.
What does recueillir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to collect, gather
- 2
to obtain, to win
- 3
to take in (a stray, etc.)
- 4
to collect one's thoughts, to reflect
- 5
to meditate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Collectionner ; collecter ; recevoir. 2. Compiler, réunir en un corps plusieurs choses de même nature éparses dans un auteur, dans plusieurs auteurs. 3. Recevoir ce qui tombe, ce qui découle. 4. Recevoir humainement et charitablement chez soi ceux qui sont dans le besoin.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of recueillir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- recueillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- recueilli participle past
- recueille first-person indicative present
- recueilles indicative present second-person
- recueillons first-person indicative plural
- recueillez indicative plural present
- recueillent indicative plural present
- recueillais first-person imperfect indicative
- recueillait imperfect indicative singular
- recueillions first-person imperfect indicative
- recueilliez imperfect indicative plural
- recueillaient imperfect indicative plural
- recueillis first-person historic indicative
- recueillit historic indicative past
- recueillîmes first-person historic indicative
- recueillîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recueillir?
- /ʁə.kœ.jiʁ/
- \ʁə.kœ.jiʁ\
- [ʁǝ.kœ.jiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to recueillir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is recueillir in French?
recueillir appears 7.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).