repas

/\ʁə.pɑ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,934

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

repas is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nourriture que l’on prend pour s’alimenter pendant une période spécifiquement consacrée à cette activité, souvent à des heures régulières de la journée. Pronounced \ʁə.pɑ\. It ranks #1,934 in French word frequency. Often confused with res and reza.

Key facts for repas
PropertyValue
Headwordrepas
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.pɑ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,934
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of repas in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for repas is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.pɑ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,934 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for repas, with forms such as "erpas", "reaps", and "repass". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "res", "reza", "reus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is repas, spelled R-E-P-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nourriture que l’on prend pour s’alimenter pendant une période spécifiquement consacrée à cette activité, souvent à des heures régulières de la journée.
  2. 2
    Période où l'on prend le repas.
  3. 3
    Pratiques sociales, cérémonial qui entoure le repas.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erpas,reaps,repass,reppas,repsa,rpeas,rrepas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for repas

Misspelling Variants of "repas"

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Misspelling Variants of "repas"

Frequency rank: #1,934 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "repas"?
"repas" is spelled R-E-P-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.pɑ\.
What does "repas" mean?
As a noun, "repas" means: Nourriture que l’on prend pour s’alimenter pendant une période spécifiquement consacrée à cette activité, souvent à des heures régulières de la journée.
What words are commonly confused with "repas"?
"repas" is commonly confused with "res", "reza", "reus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "repas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "repas" is \ʁə.pɑ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "repas" come from?
"repas" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.