repair

/\ɹɪ.ˈpɛə\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#67,066

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

repair is aFrenchnoun. It means: I have to take the train, because my car is still in the garage for repairs. #*: Je dois prendre le train, parce que ma voiture est toujours au garage pour des réparations. Pronounced \ɹɪ.ˈpɛə\.

Key facts for repair
PropertyValue
Headwordrepair
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɹɪ.ˈpɛə\
Letters6
Frequency rank#67,066
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for repair is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɹɪ.ˈpɛə\. Corpus data places it at rank #67,066 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for repair in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 repair, spelled R-E-P-A-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    I have to take the train, because my car is still in the garage for repairs. #*: Je dois prendre le train, parce que ma voiture est toujours au garage pour des réparations.
  2. 2
    Réparation : restauration de la fonctionnalité d’un produit, mais sans conformité aux spécifications.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #67,066 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "repair"?
"repair" is spelled R-E-P-A-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɹɪ.ˈpɛə\.
What does "repair" mean?
As a noun, "repair" means: I have to take the train, because my car is still in the garage for repairs. #*: Je dois prendre le train, parce que ma voiture est toujours au garage pour des réparations.
How do you pronounce "repair"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "repair" is \ɹɪ.ˈpɛə\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "repair" come from?
"repair" 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.