repertoire
/ˈɹɛp.əɹ.twɑɹ/noun
repertoire is spelled R-E-P-E-R-T-O-I-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is repetoire: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Repertoire is a noun meaning “A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to…”. The plural of repertoire is repertoires or répertoires.
How do you spell repertoire?
Repertoire is spelled R-E-P-E-R-T-O-I-R-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for repertoire 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 repertoire mean?
noun
- 1
A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform or display.
The conjurer expanded his repertoire with some new tricks.
- 2
The set of skills, abilities, experiences, etc., possessed by a person.
- 3
The set of vocalisations used by a bird.
- 4
An amount, body, or collection of something.
- 5
A processor's instruction set.
- 6
An abstract set of characters, independent of their encoding.
ISO Latin 1 repertoire
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of repertoire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce repertoire?
- UK /ˈɹɛp.ə.twɑː/
- US /ˈɹɛp.əɹ.twɑɹ/
- US /ˈɹɛp.ə.twɑɹ/
Repertoire has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-repertoire.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of repertoire
- repertoires plural
- répertoire
- répertoires plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is repertoire?
Repertoire appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th 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).
Repertoire in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has reh:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | répertoire |
| German | Repertoire |
| Portuguese | repertório |
| Spanish | repertorio |
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 repertoire come from?
Borrowed from French répertoire, from Middle French repertoire, from Late Latin repertōrium (“an inventory, list, repertory”). Doublet of repertory.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).