rempart
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,780
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
rempart is aFrenchnoun. It means: Levée de terre, ordinairement revêtue de pierres et entourée d’un fossé, qui défend une place. Pronounced \ʁɑ̃.paʁ\. Often confused with report and repart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rempart |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.paʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rempart is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ̃.paʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,780 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for rempart, with forms such as "ermpart", "remaprt", and "remmpart". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "report", "repart", "réparé", 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 rempart, spelled R-E-M-P-A-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Levée de terre, ordinairement revêtue de pierres et entourée d’un fossé, qui défend une place.
- 2Ce qui sert de défense.
- 3Parois vertigineuses qui marquent puissamment le relief de l’île.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ermpart,remaprt,remmpart,remparrt,rempartt,rempatr,remppart,remprat,repmart,rmepart,rrempart
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Misspelling Variants of "rempart"
Frequency rank: #14,780 in French
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