récurer
French, verb/ʁe.ky.ʁe/
récurer is spelled R-É-C-U-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 70,496th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Récurer is a French verb meaning “to scrub; to scour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Curer, nettoyer complètement en frottant, en parlant surtout des ustensiles de cuisine”.
What does récurer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scrub; to scour
récurer les chiottes
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Curer, nettoyer complètement en frottant, en parlant surtout des ustensiles de cuisine. 2. Faire un troisième labour dans les vignes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of récurer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- récurant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- récuré participle past
- récure first-person indicative present
- récures indicative present second-person
- récurons first-person indicative plural
- récurez indicative plural present
- récurent indicative plural present
- récurais first-person imperfect indicative
- récurait imperfect indicative singular
- récurions first-person imperfect indicative
- récuriez imperfect indicative plural
- récuraient imperfect indicative plural
- récurai first-person historic indicative
- récuras historic indicative past
- récura historic indicative past
- récurâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce récurer?
- /ʁe.ky.ʁe/
- \ʁe.ky.ʁe\
- [ʁe.ky.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to récurer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is récurer in French?
récurer appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).