reconnaître
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Rare form of reconnoitre.
Example Sentences
- "An officer sent forward to reconnaître, returned with the intelligence that they were British troops, for he had seen their red uniforms."
- "His cavalry, whom he sent out to reconnaître close to Hawley’s camp, brought word that they could see no appearance of movement."
- "To reconnaître the enemy’s camp."
- "[…] to reconnaître the sites where the clays are to be found, through their possible relation with bauxite sediments."
- "It is a well known fact that Lapps can fall into trances in order to reconnaître how things and human beings are in distant places."
- "if it is true,...., that the orders contained information concerning certain positions from which the British warships might have been fired at, it cannot be deduced therefrom that the vessels had received orders to reconnaître Albanian coastal defences"
Etymology
Borrowed from French reconnaître.
Inflected Forms
reconnaîtres (present, singular)
reconnaîtring (participle, present)
reconnaîtred (participle, past)
reconnaîtred (past)