reluquer
\ʁə.ly.ke\
The verdict
“reluquer” is uncommon French (frequency #83,318 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,318
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lorgner curieusement du coin de l’œil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reluquer · reluquer · French
reluquer · rank #83,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,318
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relooké
Nearest frequency peer: relooké (-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 « reluquer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rediscuter
rediscuter
16,687 corpus weight
- relooké
relooké
16,684 corpus weight
- reluquer
reluquer
16,683 corpus weight
- remarqueront
remarqueront
16,682 corpus weight
- remiser
remiser
16,681 corpus weight
- remploi
remploi
16,680 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reluquer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reluquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ly.ke\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reluquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reluquer is uncommon French at frequency #83,318 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ly.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for reluquer in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 reluquer, spelled R-E-L-U-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Lorgner curieusement du coin de l’œil.
- 2Désirer ; convoiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reluquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle la reluquait depuis sa jeunesse, en connaissait les tenants et aboutissants, défauts et avantages ; et ce désir était comme un cancer qui la minait.
– À moi donc, Beautrelet, s’écria le vieux policier, qui grinçait de rage… tire donc dessus, au lieu de reluquer comme ça !…
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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