réticulé
\ʁe.ti.ky.le\
The verdict
“réticulé” is uncommon French (frequency #97,395 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,395
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une sorte de maçonnerie souvent employée par les Romains, revêtement de petites pierres ou de briquetage, dont la disposition offre à l’œil l’image d’un réseau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reticule · réticulé · French
réticulé · rank #97,395 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,395
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rétroactives
Nearest frequency peer: rétroactives (+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 « réticulé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- résorbée
résorbée
2,609 corpus weight
- résoudront
résoudront
2,608 corpus weight
- réticulé
réticulé
2,606 corpus weight
- rétroactives
rétroactives
2,605 corpus weight
- révolues
révolues
2,604 corpus weight
- Saar
Saar
2,603 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « réticulé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réticulé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.ti.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « réticulé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
réticulé is uncommon French at frequency #97,395 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁe.ti.ky.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for réticulé in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 réticulé, spelled R-É-T-I-C-U-L-É.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une sorte de maçonnerie souvent employée par les Romains, revêtement de petites pierres ou de briquetage, dont la disposition offre à l’œil l’image d’un réseau.
- 2Dont la surface est marquée de nervures croisées en réseau comme les mailles d'un filet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how réticulé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mur de maçonnerie réticulée.
Vide le stipe de Boletus reticulatus.
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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