rebuté
\ʁə.by.te\
The verdict
“rebuté” is uncommon French (frequency #68,603 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,603
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de rebuter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rebute · rebuté · French
rebuté · rank #68,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,603
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reblochon
Nearest frequency peer: reblochon (-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 « rebuté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rapprochons
rapprochons
31,401 corpus weight
- ratant
ratant
31,400 corpus weight
- reblochon
reblochon
31,399 corpus weight
- rebuté
rebuté
31,398 corpus weight
- reconfigurer
reconfigurer
31,397 corpus weight
- recrutait
recrutait
31,396 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rebuté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rebuté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.by.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rebuté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rebuté is uncommon French at frequency #68,603 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.by.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de rebuter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for rebuté in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rebuté, spelled R-E-B-U-T-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de rebuter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rebuté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donc, parmi les dix-huit convives, il se rencontrait, comme dans les collèges, comme dans le monde, une pauvre créature rebutée, un souffre-douleurs sur qui pleuvaient les plaisanteries.
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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