repast
/ɹɪˈpɑːst/
"repast" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“repast” is uncommon English (frequency #96,407 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,407
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A meal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-repast · repast · English
repast · rank #96,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,407
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH repton
Nearest frequency peer: repton (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “repast”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- redbone
redbone
3,600 corpus weight
- Refugio
Refugio
3,598 corpus weight
- repast
repast
3,594 corpus weight
- repton
repton
3,593 corpus weight
- rew
rew
3,588 corpus weight
- rideout
rideout
3,584 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “repast” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repast |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈpɑːst/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “repast” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
repast is uncommon English at frequency #96,407 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹɪˈpɑːst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for repast in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French repast, Middle French, Old French repas (“meal, repast; spiritual nourishment”) (modern … The correct English form is repast, spelled R-E-P-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1A meal.
- 2A period of refreshment or rest.
- 3Food or drink that may be consumed as a meal.
- 4Something that is intellectually or spiritually nourishing.
- 5The consumption of food; also, refreshment obtained from eating; (generally) refreshment; rest.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repast appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After evening repaſt, till bed time their thoughts will be beſt taken up in the eaſie grounds of Religion, and the ſtory of Scripture.
Forthwith from dance to ſweet repaſt they turn / Deſirous, all in Circles as they ſtood, / Tables are ſet, and on a ſudden pil'd / With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows: […]
Etymology
From Middle English repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French repast, Middle French, Old French repas (“meal, repast; spiritual nourishment”) (modern French repas), probably from Medieval Latin, Late Latin repastus (“meal”), from repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”), from Latin re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + pāscō (“to feed, nourish; to pasture (an animal); of an animal: to browse, graze; to maintain, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”)).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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