récurer
\ʁe.ky.ʁe\
The verdict
“récurer” is uncommon French (frequency #71,034 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,034
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Curer, nettoyer complètement en frottant, en parlant surtout des ustensiles de cuisine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recurer · récurer · French
récurer · rank #71,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,034
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH régulant
Nearest frequency peer: régulant (+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 « récurer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- roulade
roulade
28,971 corpus weight
- Roum
Roum
28,970 corpus weight
- récurer
récurer
28,967 corpus weight
- régulant
régulant
28,966 corpus weight
- réinitialis…
réinitialisation
28,965 corpus weight
- révoqués
révoqués
28,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « récurer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ky.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « récurer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
récurer is uncommon French at frequency #71,034 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.ky.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
récurer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is récurer, spelled R-É-C-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Curer, nettoyer complètement en frottant, en parlant surtout des ustensiles de cuisine.
- 2Faire un troisième labour dans les vignes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how récurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Récurer une casserole.
Alors on ne se servait jamais de nappe, et le couvert était mis sur la table de sapin blanc, récurée chaque matin avec des cendres.
This word in other languages
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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