repassent
\ʁə.pas\
The verdict
“repassent” is uncommon French (frequency #56,877 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,877
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de repasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repassent · repassent · French
repassent · rank #56,877 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,877
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renversées
Nearest frequency peer: renversées (-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 « repassent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rennaise
Rennaise
43,127 corpus weight
- renversées
renversées
43,125 corpus weight
- repassent
repassent
43,124 corpus weight
- repo
repo
43,123 corpus weight
- reportent
reportent
43,122 corpus weight
- repoussoir
repoussoir
43,121 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repassent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repassent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repassent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repassent is uncommon French at frequency #56,877 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
repassent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 repassent, spelled R-E-P-A-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de repasser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de repasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how repassent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À cette fin d’automne, repassent et se marient en une rémittence les souvenirs. C’est le glauque du Rhin se grisant sous les sureaux et les saules ; c’est les botticelliennes aux grâces variantes, enrobantes, emmitonnantes, qu’on sent bouger, refuir. Et les eaux tavelées et lavées du Rhin et les femmes de Botticelli glissent, en leur analogie, entre des r…
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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