réticulé
\ʁe.ti.ky.le\
The verdict
“réticulé” is uncommon French (frequency #97,395 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,395
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “réticulé” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
réticulé is uncommon French at frequency #97,395 among 507,453 “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.
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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Using “réticulé”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-É-T-I-C-U-L-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.