repaire
\ʁə.pɛʁ\
The verdict
“repaire” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,549. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,549
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où se réunissent et se cachent bandits, malfaiteurs, voleurs, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repaire · repaire · French
repaire · rank #20,549 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,549
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relèvement
Nearest frequency peer: relèvement (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “repaire”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- refermer
refermer
79,455 corpus weight
- relayer
relayer
79,454 corpus weight
- relèvement
relèvement
79,453 corpus weight
- repaire
repaire
79,452 corpus weight
- retournés
retournés
79,451 corpus weight
- rigoureusem…
rigoureusement
79,450 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “repaire” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “repaire” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around repaire (IPA \ʁə.pɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,549 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for repaire, with forms such as "erpaire", "reapire", and "repaier". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "retiré", "repart", "repère", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is repaire, spelled R-E-P-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où se réunissent et se cachent bandits, malfaiteurs, voleurs, etc.
- 2Lieu de réunion de personnes qui ont des affinités.
- 3Lieu qui sert de retraite aux bêtes sauvages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non, sur ma foi ! répondit Cédric, je n’ai jamais étudié l’art d’attaquer ou de défendre les repaires du pouvoir tyrannique que les Normands ont élevés dans ce malheureux pays.
Des repaires dangereux existaient où la police n’osait s’aventurer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpaire
- reapire
- repaier
- repairre
- reparie
- repiare
- reppaire
- rpeaire
- rrepaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repaire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "repaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "repaire". Here's where to go from here.
- "repaire" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "retiré". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #20,549 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "R" letter cohort. R–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.