cage de répétition

\kaʒ də ʁe.pe.ti.sjɔ̃\

/\kaʒ də ʁe.pe.ti.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“cage de répétition” 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
18
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Cage montée dans une ménagerie, à l'extérieur du chapiteau d'un cirque, pour le dressage de fauves et l'apprentissage de leur numéro par un dompteur comme dans la cage centrale.

Key facts for cage de répétition
PropertyValue
Headwordcage de répétition
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaʒ də ʁe.pe.ti.sjɔ̃\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cage de répétition” sits in French frequency

cage de répétition falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cage de répétition is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʒ də ʁe.pe.ti.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Cage montée dans une ménagerie, à l'extérieur du chapiteau d'un cirque, pour le dressage de fauves et l'apprentissage de leur numéro par un dompteur comme dans la cage centrale.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cage de répétition in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cage de répétition, spelled C-A-G-E- -D-E- -R-É-P-É-T-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cage montée dans une ménagerie, à l'extérieur du chapiteau d'un cirque, pour le dressage de fauves et l'apprentissage de leur numéro par un dompteur comme dans la cage centrale.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cage de répétition"?
"cage de répétition" is spelled C-A-G-E- -D-E- -R-É-P-É-T-I-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʒ də ʁe.pe.ti.sjɔ̃\.
What does "cage de répétition" mean?
As a noun, "cage de répétition" means: Cage montée dans une ménagerie, à l'extérieur du chapiteau d'un cirque, pour le dressage de fauves et l'apprentissage de leur numéro par un dompteur comme dans la cage centrale.
How do you pronounce "cage de répétition"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cage de répétition" is \kaʒ də ʁe.pe.ti.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “cage de répétition”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-A-G-E- -D-E- -R-É-P-É-T-I-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kaʒ də ʁe.pe.ti.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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