reculs
\ʁə.kyl\
The verdict
“reculs” is uncommon French (frequency #56,866 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,866
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de recul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reculs · reculs · French
reculs · rank #56,866 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,866
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recoupement
Nearest frequency peer: recoupement (-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 « reculs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recommencem…
recommencement
43,138 corpus weight
- reconvertis
reconvertis
43,137 corpus weight
- recoupement
recoupement
43,136 corpus weight
- reculs
reculs
43,135 corpus weight
- redoublent
redoublent
43,134 corpus weight
- relancent
relancent
43,133 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reculs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reculs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kyl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reculs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reculs is uncommon French at frequency #56,866 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.kyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de recul.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reculs, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is reculs, spelled R-E-C-U-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de recul.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reculs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car il y aura évidemment des reculs, notamment celui de l’époque révolutionnaire.
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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