récusation
\ʁe.ky.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“récusation” is uncommon French (frequency #66,319 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,319
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle on récuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recusation · récusation · French
récusation · rank #66,319 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,319
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réclama
Nearest frequency peer: réclama (-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 « récusation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réchauffée
réchauffée
33,685 corpus weight
- récitatif
récitatif
33,684 corpus weight
- réclama
réclama
33,683 corpus weight
- récusation
récusation
33,682 corpus weight
- référencée
référencée
33,681 corpus weight
- répandait
répandait
33,679 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « récusation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récusation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.ky.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « récusation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
récusation is uncommon French at frequency #66,319 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.ky.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action par laquelle on récuse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for récusation, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is récusation, spelled R-É-C-U-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle on récuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how récusation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les commissaires députés se rendirent à Baix, et après enquête, le 25 janv. 1676, sans s'arrêter à la récusation formée par Corbières, ils le suspendirent de ses fonctions […].
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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