reculade
\ʁə.ky.lad\
The verdict
“reculade” is uncommon French (frequency #84,230 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,230
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement en arrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reculade · reculade · French
reculade · rank #84,230 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,230
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redessinée
Nearest frequency peer: redessinée (+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 « reculade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recap
recap
15,774 corpus weight
- recognition
recognition
15,773 corpus weight
- reculade
reculade
15,771 corpus weight
- redessinée
redessinée
15,770 corpus weight
- redevenait
redevenait
15,769 corpus weight
- redwood
redwood
15,768 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reculade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reculade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ky.lad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reculade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reculade is uncommon French at frequency #84,230 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.ky.lad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reculade, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is reculade, spelled R-E-C-U-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Mouvement en arrière.
- 2Mouvement de ceux qui, s’étant trop avancés, sont obligés de faire des pas en arrière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reculade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand l'officier revint au palais, un air de bonheur et de joie avait succédé sur sa figure au subit effroi que la reculade du cheval y avait imprimé ; ….
« Très vite, nous dûmes déménager, parce que le loyer de notre premier appartement était trop élevé pour nous. De reculade en reculade, nous échouâmes ici… »
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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