recula

\ʁə.ky.la\

/\ʁə.ky.la\/ verb

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The verdict

“recula” is uncommon French (frequency #55,553 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,553
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe reculer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-recula · recula · French

recula · rank #55,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,553
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH recommencez

Nearest frequency peer: recommencez (-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 « recula »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recula » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for recula
PropertyValue
Headwordrecula
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.ky.la\
Letters6
Frequency rank#55,553
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « recula » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.reculatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « recommencez » (#55,552), « reef » (#55,554), « recommanderais » (#55,551). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « recula » est au #55,553. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

recula is uncommon French at frequency #55,553 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ky.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe reculer.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for recula, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is recula, spelled R-E-C-U-L-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe reculer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how recula appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il recula, son tablier se désimmaculait à vue d’œil.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "recula"?
"recula" is spelled R-E-C-U-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.ky.la\.
What does "recula" mean?
As a verb, "recula" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe reculer.
How do you pronounce "recula"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "recula" is \ʁə.ky.la\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "recula" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "recula", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rasent#55,546ramona#55,544Reuter#55,564Roussy#55,571

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list