redoutez
\ʁə.du.te\
The verdict
“redoutez” is uncommon French (frequency #77,855 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,855
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de redouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-redoutez · redoutez · French
redoutez · rank #77,855 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,855
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reculez
Nearest frequency peer: reculez (-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 « redoutez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recevrais
recevrais
22,149 corpus weight
- recueillera
recueillera
22,148 corpus weight
- reculez
reculez
22,147 corpus weight
- redoutez
redoutez
22,146 corpus weight
- refaisant
refaisant
22,145 corpus weight
- regrettais
regrettais
22,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « redoutez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redoutez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.du.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « redoutez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
redoutez is uncommon French at frequency #77,855 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.du.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
redoutez has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is redoutez, spelled R-E-D-O-U-T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de redouter.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de redouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how redoutez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne redoutez pas les changements qui se produisent dans votre travail.
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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