reculez
\ʁə.ky.le\
The verdict
“reculez” is uncommon French (frequency #77,854 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,854
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de reculer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reculez · reculez · French
reculez · rank #77,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,854
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recueillera
Nearest frequency peer: recueillera (-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 « reculez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recadre
recadre
22,150 corpus weight
- recevrais
recevrais
22,149 corpus weight
- recueillera
recueillera
22,148 corpus weight
- reculez
reculez
22,147 corpus weight
- redoutez
redoutez
22,146 corpus weight
- refaisant
refaisant
22,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reculez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reculez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reculez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reculez is uncommon French at frequency #77,854 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ky.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reculez, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is reculez, spelled R-E-C-U-L-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de reculer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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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