rebooter
\ʁə.bu.te\
The verdict
“rebooter” is uncommon French (frequency #87,082 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,082
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Redémarrer (un ordinateur, un système).
Corpus desk
Index FR-rebooter · rebooter · French
rebooter · rank #87,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,082
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recourbée
Nearest frequency peer: recourbée (+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 « rebooter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rasez
rasez
12,922 corpus weight
- ravalé
ravalé
12,921 corpus weight
- rebooter
rebooter
12,919 corpus weight
- recourbée
recourbée
12,918 corpus weight
- recroquevil…
recroquevillée
12,917 corpus weight
- redoublant
redoublant
12,916 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rebooter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rebooter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.bu.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rebooter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rebooter is uncommon French at frequency #87,082 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.bu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rebooter, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rebooter, spelled R-E-B-O-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Redémarrer (un ordinateur, un système).
- 2Dans le doute, reboote. Si ça rate, formate. — (Proverbe)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rebooter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après l’installation de logiciels, il est parfois demandé de rebooter sa machine.
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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