repas
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.pɑ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Nourriture que l’on prend pour s’alimenter pendant une période spécifiquement consacrée à cette activité, souvent à des heures régulières de la journée.
- 2Période où l'on prend le repas.
- 3Pratiques sociales, cérémonial qui entoure le repas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erpas,reaps,repass,reppas,repsa,rpeas,rrepas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "repas"
Frequency rank: #1,934 in French
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