régurgiter
\ʁe.ɡyʁ.ʒi.te\
The verdict
“régurgiter” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire revenir dans la bouche de la nourriture préalablement avalée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regurgiter · régurgiter · French
régurgiter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | régurgiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɡyʁ.ʒi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
régurgiter is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.ɡyʁ.ʒi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for régurgiter, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is régurgiter, spelled R-É-G-U-R-G-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire revenir dans la bouche de la nourriture préalablement avalée.
- 2Restituer sans analyse, sans intelligence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how régurgiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand elle a payé son loyer, il ne lui reste presque plus rien pour sa nourriture. Elle se gorge alors de sucreries et de glace au chocolat qu’elle s’empresse de régurgiter peu de temps après.
Mais elle ne se contente pas de régurgiter ce qu’elle lit.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.