recuit
\ʁə.kɥi\
The verdict
“recuit” is uncommon French (frequency #82,398 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,398
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est extrêmement cuit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recuit · recuit · French
recuit · rank #82,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,398
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recommendatio…
Nearest frequency peer: recommendations (-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 « recuit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- realm
realm
17,606 corpus weight
- rechargez
rechargez
17,605 corpus weight
- recommendat…
recommendations
17,604 corpus weight
- recuit
recuit
17,603 corpus weight
- regum
regum
17,601 corpus weight
- reille
reille
17,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recuit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɥi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recuit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recuit is uncommon French at frequency #82,398 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.kɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for recuit, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 recuit, spelled R-E-C-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est extrêmement cuit.
- 2Qui a l'apparence de ce qui a été recuit.
- 3Épaissi, échauffé, en parlant des humeurs du corps humain.
- 4Qualifie un ressentiment ancien et tenace.
- 5Endurci, dur-à-cuire.
- 6Qui a subi l’opération du recuit.
- 7Qui a subi l’opération du recuit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recuit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cela est cuit et recuit.
Il était maigre et de teint jaune, recuit de misère avec des yeux de loup ; des os de sa forte charpente faisaient saillie sous sa capote.
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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