registre

/\ʁə.ʒistʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,637

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

registre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Livre où l’on écrit les actes, les affaires de chaque jour. Pronounced \ʁə.ʒistʁ\. It ranks #3,637 in French word frequency. Often confused with résisté and registres.

Key facts for registre
PropertyValue
Headwordregistre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.ʒistʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,637
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of registre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for registre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.ʒistʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,637 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for registre, with forms such as "ergistre", "reggistre", and "regisrte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "résisté", "registres", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is registre, spelled R-E-G-I-S-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Livre où l’on écrit les actes, les affaires de chaque jour.
  2. 2
    Manette indiquant et appelant chacun des jeux de l’orgue.
  3. 3
    Étendue de l’échelle vocale.
  4. 4
    Étendue de valeurs.
  5. 5
    Registre de langue : mode d’expression adapté à une situation d’énonciation particulière, et qui détermine notamment certains choix lexicaux et syntaxiques ainsi qu’un certain ton. On dit aussi niveau de langue ou encore style.
  6. 6
    Plaque ou tuyau placé à des ouvertures d'appareils, et que l’on fait mouvoir pour régler le tirage en donnant plus ou moins de passage à l’air.
  7. 7
    Correspondance des lignes du recto avec les lignes du verso d’un feuillet.
  8. 8
    Organe ou recueil administratif qui recense et répertorie.
  9. 9
    Bande décorée dans un ensemble ornemental (sculpture, peinture, vitrail, etc.).
  10. 10
    Mémoire tampon associée au processeur central, pour effectuer les calculs.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ergistre,reggistre,regisrte,regisstre,register,registrre,registtre,regitsre,regsitre,reigstre,rgeistre,rregistre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for registre

Misspelling Variants of "registre"

ergistre8reggistre9regisrte8regisstre9register8registrre9registtre9regitsre8
Misspelling Variants of "registre"

Frequency rank: #3,637 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "registre"?
"registre" is spelled R-E-G-I-S-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.ʒistʁ\.
What does "registre" mean?
As a noun, "registre" means: Livre où l’on écrit les actes, les affaires de chaque jour.
What words are commonly confused with "registre"?
"registre" is commonly confused with "résisté", "registres". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "registre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "registre" is \ʁə.ʒistʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "registre" come from?
"registre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.