aire de repos
\ɛʁ də ʁə.po\
The verdict
“aire de repos” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Europe) Infrastructure implantée en bordure d’autoroute ou de grande route pour permettre le repos des voyageurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aire de repos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ də ʁə.po\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aire de repos” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aire de repos is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛʁ də ʁə.po\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Europe) Infrastructure implantée en bordure d’autoroute ou de grande route pour permettre le repos des voyageurs.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aire de repos, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aire de repos, spelled A-I-R-E- -D-E- -R-E-P-O-S.
Definition
- 1(Europe) Infrastructure implantée en bordure d’autoroute ou de grande route pour permettre le repos des voyageurs.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “aire de repos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-I-R-E- -D-E- -R-E-P-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛʁ də ʁə.po\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.