repassait
\ʁə.pa.sɛ\
The verdict
“repassait” is uncommon French (frequency #86,115 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,115
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de repasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repassait · repassait · French
repassait · rank #86,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,115
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reparaître
Nearest frequency peer: reparaître (-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 « repassait »
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 « repassait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repassait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pa.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repassait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repassait is uncommon French at frequency #86,115 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pa.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de repasser.".
repassait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is repassait, spelled R-E-P-A-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de repasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how repassait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cela lui repassait devant les yeux : les nuits du Bario-Chino et le Grec d’Itea qu’il avait étendu raide, d’un coup de poing, et la jonque des Chinois qui s’était retournée sur la barre à l’embouchure du Tchou-Kiang !
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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