réchapper
\ʁe.ʃa.pe\
The verdict
“réchapper” is uncommon French (frequency #90,151 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,151
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être délivré, se tirer d’un grand péril.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rechapper · réchapper · French
réchapper · rank #90,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,151
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réceptacles
Nearest frequency peer: réceptacles (-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 « réchapper »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réceptacles
réceptacles
9,851 corpus weight
- réchapper
réchapper
9,850 corpus weight
- récrire
récrire
9,849 corpus weight
- régleront
régleront
9,848 corpus weight
- Réjane
Réjane
9,847 corpus weight
- réorganisant
réorganisant
9,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « réchapper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réchapper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ʃa.pe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « réchapper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
réchapper is uncommon French at frequency #90,151 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.ʃa.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être délivré, se tirer d’un grand péril.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for réchapper, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 réchapper, spelled R-É-C-H-A-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être délivré, se tirer d’un grand péril.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how réchapper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 4 août 1578, à Ksar el-Kébir, la bataille des Trois Rois se solda par une tragique victoire de l'allié d'Élisabeth : 8 000 morts, 15 000 prisonniers, la fleur de la noblesse portugaise décimée, et ce fut bien le diable si une centaine de survivants en réchappèrent.
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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