repassé

\ʁə.pa.se\

/\ʁə.pa.se\/ verb

The verdict

“repassé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,940
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de repasser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-repasse · repassé · French

repassé · rank #27,940 · 9 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,940
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rencard

Nearest frequency peer: rencard (-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 « repassé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « repassé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

repassé vs reposé
71% similar
repassé vs réponse
43% similar
repassé vs reprise
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for repassé
PropertyValue
Headwordrepassé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.pa.se\
Letters7
Frequency rank#27,940
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « repassé »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.repassése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rencard » (#27,939), « repoussent » (#27,941), « remorques » (#27,938). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « repassé » est au #27,940. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around repassé (IPA \ʁə.pa.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,940 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de repasser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for repassé, with forms such as "erpassé", "reapssé", and "repasse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "reposé", "réponse", "reprise", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is repassé, spelled R-E-P-A-S-S-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier de repasser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how repassé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Avec une escouade de cinglés comme l’équipe du petit Frédo, on pouvait s’attendre au pire. À du tir de rafale, à tout va, histoire simplement de faire monter leur cote, d’éblouir les petits barbiquets de leur coin en annonçant d’un air froid : — Hier soir, on a repassé Max-le-Menteur.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erpassé
  • reapssé
  • repasse
  • repasé
  • repasés
  • reppassé
  • repsasé
  • rpeassé
  • rrepassé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repassé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

erpassé2reapssé2repasse1repasé1repasés2reppassé1repsasé2rpeassé2
Edit distance from "repassé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "repassé"?
"repassé" is spelled R-E-P-A-S-S-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.pa.se\.
What does "repassé" mean?
As a verb, "repassé" means: Participe passé masculin singulier de repasser.
What words are commonly confused with "repassé"?
"repassé" is commonly confused with "reposé", "réponse", "reprise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "repassé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "repassé" is \ʁə.pa.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "repassé" come from?
"repassé" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "repassé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list