recuire
French, verb
recuire is spelled R-E-C-U-I-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written French, the 186,002nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recuire is a French verb meaning “to recook” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of recuirer. With an accent, recuiré is a different word: “past participle of recuirer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cuire de nouveau”.
What does recuire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to recook
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of recuirer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cuire de nouveau. 2. Remettre un ouvrage au feu pour sa perfection et sa conservation, pour lui donner une plus grande solidité, etc. 3. Subir une nouvelle cuisson.
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 recuire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- recuisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- recuit participle past
- recuis first-person indicative present
- recuisons first-person indicative plural
- recuisez indicative plural present
- recuisent indicative plural present
- recuisais first-person imperfect indicative
- recuisait imperfect indicative singular
- recuisions first-person imperfect indicative
- recuisiez imperfect indicative plural
- recuisaient imperfect indicative plural
- recuisis first-person historic indicative
- recuisit historic indicative past
- recuisîmes first-person historic indicative
- recuisîtes historic indicative past
- recuisirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to recuire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is recuire in French?
recuire appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).