repassage
\ʁə.pɑ.saʒ\
The verdict
“repassage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,496
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de repasser, spécialement en parlant du linge, des étoffes, des vêtements, etc., ou bien des couteaux, des rasoirs, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repassage · repassage · French
repassage · rank #41,496 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,496
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rencontreras
Nearest frequency peer: rencontreras (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « repassage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remarquées
remarquées
58,508 corpus weight
- remettons
remettons
58,507 corpus weight
- rencontreras
rencontreras
58,506 corpus weight
- repassage
repassage
58,505 corpus weight
- repassera
repassera
58,504 corpus weight
- repliée
repliée
58,503 corpus weight
What this shows « repassage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repassage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.pɑ.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « repassage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around repassage (IPA \ʁə.pɑ.saʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,496 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de repasser, spécialement en parlant du linge, des étoffes, des vêtements, etc., ou bien des couteaux, des rasoirs, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for repassage, with forms such as "erpassage", "reapssage", and "repasage". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "repassé", "ramassage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is repassage, spelled R-E-P-A-S-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de repasser, spécialement en parlant du linge, des étoffes, des vêtements, etc., ou bien des couteaux, des rasoirs, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repassage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Porté au domicile des repasseuses ou accompli à la maison, le travail de repassage et de tuyautage des pièces de lingerie demandait une grande adresse et beaucoup de soin.
– […] Et qu’est-ce que ça coûte ? des soins, du fumier, et le repassage d’une serpette !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpassage
- reapssage
- repasage
- repasasge
- repassaeg
- repassagge
- repassgae
- reppassage
- repsasage
- rpeassage
- rrepassage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repassage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).