rejet

/\ʁə.ʒɛ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,020

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

rejet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de repousser une chose, de n’en pas vouloir, de ne pas l’admettre. Pronounced \ʁə.ʒɛ\. It ranks #6,020 in French word frequency. Often confused with rêve and rest.

Key facts for rejet
PropertyValue
Headwordrejet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.ʒɛ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,020
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rejet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.ʒɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,020 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for rejet, with forms such as "erjet", "reejt", and "rejett". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rêve", "rest", "rent", and more, 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 rejet, spelled R-E-J-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de repousser une chose, de n’en pas vouloir, de ne pas l’admettre.
  2. 2
    Renvoi d’une partie d’un compte, qui doit être portée sur un autre chapitre du même compte ou sur un autre compte.
  3. 3
    Nouveau bois, de la nouvelle pousse d’une plante, d’un arbre.
  4. 4
    Rejeton.
  5. 5
    Ce qui est renvoyé hors de lui par un organisme ou tout système de transformation d'énergie.
  6. 6
    Évacuation de détritus.
  7. 7
    Procédé métrique qui consiste à rejeter au début du vers suivant, afin de le mettre en relief, un mot ou un groupe de mots qui appartiennent, par la construction syntaxique et le sens, au vers précédent.
  8. 8
    Phénomène de refus d'un tissu ou d'un organe venu d'un autre organisme.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erjet,reejt,rejett,rejjet,rejte,rjeet,rrejet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rejet

Misspelling Variants of "rejet"

erjet5reejt5rejett6rejjet6rejte5rjeet5rrejet6
Misspelling Variants of "rejet"

Frequency rank: #6,020 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rejet"?
"rejet" is spelled R-E-J-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.ʒɛ\.
What does "rejet" mean?
As a noun, "rejet" means: Action de repousser une chose, de n’en pas vouloir, de ne pas l’admettre.
What words are commonly confused with "rejet"?
"rejet" is commonly confused with "rêve", "rest", "rent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rejet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rejet" is \ʁə.ʒɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rejet" come from?
"rejet" 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.