reparaître
\ʁə.pa.ʁɛtʁ\
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
- renouvela
renouvela
13,890 corpus weight
- renvoyaient
renvoyaient
13,889 corpus weight
- reo
reo
13,888 corpus weight
- reparaître
reparaître
13,887 corpus weight
- repassait
repassait
13,886 corpus weight
- repenses
repenses
13,884 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reparaître » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reparaître |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pa.ʁɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reparaître » en français
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
- 1Paraître de nouveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reparaître appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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