redoutez

\ʁə.du.te\

/\ʁə.du.te\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « redoutez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for redoutez
PropertyValue
Headwordredoutez
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.du.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#77,855
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « redoutez » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).redouteztombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « reculez » (#77,854), « refaisant » (#77,856), « recueillera » (#77,853). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « redoutez » est au #77,855. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de redouter.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de redouter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how redoutez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "redoutez"?
"redoutez" is spelled R-E-D-O-U-T-E-Z. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.du.te\.
What does "redoutez" mean?
As a verb, "redoutez" means: Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de redouter.
How do you pronounce "redoutez"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "redoutez" is \ʁə.du.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "redoutez" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "redoutez", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list