reap
\riːp\
The verdict
“reap” is uncommon French (frequency #76,953 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,953
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reap · reap · French
reap · rank #76,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,953
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Realpolitik
Nearest frequency peer: Realpolitik (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « reap »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rapprochaie…
rapprochaient
23,052 corpus weight
- Rayane
Rayane
23,051 corpus weight
- Realpolitik
Realpolitik
23,049 corpus weight
- reap
reap
23,048 corpus weight
- receviez
receviez
23,047 corpus weight
- recherchera
recherchera
23,046 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reap » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \riːp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reap » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reap is uncommon French at frequency #76,953 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \riːp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for reap in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is reap, spelled R-E-A-P.
Definition
- 1Faucher.
- 2Récolter.
- 3Profiter (de quelque chose).
- 4Ébarber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The farm workers used to spend long hours in the fields manually reaping the wheat.
reap the harvest
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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