reculés

Name: reculés, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ʁə.ky.le\

/\ʁə.ky.le\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“reculés” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,432. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,432
frequency rank, French: 5,742
“R” headwords: 11
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de reculé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-recules · reculés · French

reculés · rank #33,432 · 11 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-MID #33,432
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 11 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,742
PHOTO-FINISH recourt

Nearest frequency peer: recourt (-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.

rattachées

66,572
reconnaissa…

66,571
recourt

66,570
reculés

66,569
redoublé

66,568
refuserait

66,567

What this shows « reculés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

reculés vs reçus

57% similar

reculés vs rules

57% similar

reculés vs revues

57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for reculés
Property	Value
Headword	reculés
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\ʁə.ky.le\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#33,432
Misspellings tracked	11
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reculés »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.reculésse place ici:

#33,432

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « recourt » (#33,431), « redoublé » (#33,433), « reconnaissances » (#33,430). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « reculés » est au #33,432. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around reculés (IPA \ʁə.ky.le\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,432 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de reculé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for reculés, with forms such as "erculés", "rceulés", and "recculés". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "reçus", "rules", "revues", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is reculés, spelled R-E-C-U-L-É-S.

Definition

1
Masculin pluriel de reculé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

À Bogota, à Barranquilla, à Cali, dans les endroits les plus reculés de la Colombie, des hommes armés surgissaient, bloquaient avec leur voiture volée les camionnettes de transports de fonds qui, en quelques secondes, changeaient de bord !

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

erculés
rceulés
recculés
reclués
recules
recullés
reculsé
reculéss
recuéls
reuclés
rreculés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reculés - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "reculés"

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 "reculés"?

"reculés" is spelled R-E-C-U-L-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.ky.le\.

What does "reculés" mean?

As an adjective, "reculés" means: Masculin pluriel de reculé.

What words are commonly confused with "reculés"?

"reculés" is commonly confused with "reçus", "rules", "revues". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "reculés"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reculés" is \ʁə.ky.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "reculés" come from?

"reculés" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

recourt#33,431 quilles#33,424 rongeur#33,444 roseaux#33,445

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

poursuis11 variants posaient11 variants sabatier11 variants pendent11 variants