reculaient
\ʁə.ky.lɛ\
The verdict
“reculaient” is uncommon French (frequency #90,110 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,110
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de reculer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reculaient · reculaient · French
reculaient · rank #90,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,110
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconnaîtras
Nearest frequency peer: reconnaîtras (-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 « reculaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rebat
rebat
9,894 corpus weight
- reconcentrer
reconcentrer
9,893 corpus weight
- reconnaîtras
reconnaîtras
9,892 corpus weight
- reculaient
reculaient
9,891 corpus weight
- rediffuser
rediffuser
9,889 corpus weight
- regno
regno
9,888 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reculaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reculaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ky.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reculaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reculaient is uncommon French at frequency #90,110 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ky.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de reculer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for reculaient in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is reculaient, spelled R-E-C-U-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de reculer.
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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