repaître

\ʁə.pɛtʁ\

/\ʁə.pɛtʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“repaître” is uncommon French (frequency #90,125 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,125
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner à manger, nourrir à satiété.

Corpus desk

Index FR-repaitre · repaître · French

repaître · rank #90,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,125
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH reps

Nearest frequency peer: reps (+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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « repaître »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repaître » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for repaître
PropertyValue
Headwordrepaître
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.pɛtʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#90,125
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « repaître » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.repaîtretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « reps » (#90,126), « renverrai » (#90,123), « renforçons » (#90,122). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « repaître » est au #90,125. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

repaître is uncommon French at frequency #90,125 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

repaître doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is repaître, spelled R-E-P-A-Î-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Donner à manger, nourrir à satiété.
  2. 2
    Se satisfaire pleinement, prendre ou saisir avec avidité.
  3. 3
    Manger.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how repaître appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il faut repaître ces animaux.
  2. Cette espèce d’animaux se repaît de chair.

This word in other languages

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "repaître"?
"repaître" is spelled R-E-P-A-Î-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.pɛtʁ\.
What does "repaître" mean?
As a verb, "repaître" means: Donner à manger, nourrir à satiété.
How do you pronounce "repaître"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "repaître" is \ʁə.pɛtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "repaître" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "repaître", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

relatées#90,118ramifiée#90,096saccadés#90,162quartile#90,084

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list