repechage
/ˌɹɛp.əˈʃɑʒ/noun
repechage is spelled R-E-P-E-C-H-A-G-E. The wrong spelling people search most is repecharge: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Repechage is a noun meaning “A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for…”. The plural of repechage is repêchages or repechages.
How do you spell repechage?
Repechage is spelled R-E-P-E-C-H-A-G-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 23 of the searches for repechage in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does repechage mean?
noun
- 1
A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.
- 2
The use of this form of competition.
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of repechage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce repechage?
- UK /ˈɹɛp.ə.ʃɑːʒ/
- UK /ˈɹɛp.ɪ.ʃɑːʒ/
- US /ˌɹɛp.əˈʃɑʒ/
Repechage has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-repechage.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of repechage
- repêchages plural
- repechages plural
- repêchage
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is repechage?
Repechage appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Repechage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense heat for competitors who have lost in a previous round:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | repêchage |
| German | Hoffnungslauf, Trostrunde |
| Portuguese | repescagem |
| Spanish | repesca, repechaje |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does repechage come from?
From French repêchage, from repêcher (“to fish out, rescue”), from re- (“again”) + pêcher (“to fish”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).