reparaître

\ʁə.pa.ʁɛtʁ\

/\ʁə.pa.ʁɛtʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“reparaître” is uncommon French (frequency #86,114 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,114
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paraître de nouveau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-reparaitre · reparaître · French

reparaître · rank #86,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,114
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH reo

Nearest frequency peer: reo (-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 « reparaître »

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 « reparaître » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for reparaître
PropertyValue
Headwordreparaître
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.pa.ʁɛtʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#86,114
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « reparaître » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).reparaîtretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « reo » (#86,113), « repassait » (#86,115), « renvoyaient » (#86,112). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « reparaître » est au #86,114. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

reparaître is uncommon French at frequency #86,114 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pa.ʁɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paraître de nouveau.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reparaître, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is reparaître, spelled R-E-P-A-R-A-Î-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Paraître de nouveau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le juge expliqua sans répondre au prévenu que, s’il avait subi la flétrissure infligée alors par les lois aux condamnés aux travaux forcés, en lui frappant l’épaule les lettres reparaîtraient aussitôt.
  2. C'était le ministère du 24 mai 1873 qui reparaissait.

This word in other languages

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 "reparaître"?
"reparaître" is spelled R-E-P-A-R-A-Î-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.pa.ʁɛtʁ\.
What does "reparaître" mean?
As a verb, "reparaître" means: Paraître de nouveau.
How do you pronounce "reparaître"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reparaître" is \ʁə.pa.ʁɛtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list