répandait
\ʁe.pɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“répandait” is uncommon French (frequency #66,322 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,322
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de répandre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repandait · répandait · French
répandait · rank #66,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,322
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH révélèrent
Nearest frequency peer: révélèrent (+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 « répandait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- récusation
récusation
33,682 corpus weight
- référencée
référencée
33,681 corpus weight
- répandait
répandait
33,679 corpus weight
- révélèrent
révélèrent
33,678 corpus weight
- saillante
saillante
33,677 corpus weight
- salamandres
salamandres
33,676 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « répandait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | répandait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.pɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « répandait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
répandait is uncommon French at frequency #66,322 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.pɑ̃.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de répandre.".
répandait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is répandait, spelled R-É-P-A-N-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de répandre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how répandait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au fond d’un bar fallacieusement intitulé La Jeunesse, un phonographe tournait et répandait des gargouillements sonores d’accordéon.
C’était la sagesse même, mais si cette sagesse se répandait, il ne resterait aux privés qu’à s’inscrire au chômeboum.
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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