repeat

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The English entry for repeat is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹɪˈpiːt/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,080 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for repeat, with forms such as "erpeat", "reepat", and "repaet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "reset", "repel", "report", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, repetere, from the prefix re- (“again”) + peto (“attack, beseech”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is repeat, spelled R-E-P-E-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.