repasser
\ʁə.pɑ.se\
The verdict
“repasser” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,061. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,061
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passer de nouveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repasser · repasser · French
repasser · rank #10,061 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,061
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renforts
Nearest frequency peer: renforts (-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 « repasser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reins
reins
89,942 corpus weight
- renforts
renforts
89,941 corpus weight
- repasser
repasser
89,940 corpus weight
- ressemblait
ressemblait
89,939 corpus weight
- resta
resta
89,938 corpus weight
- rochers
rochers
89,937 corpus weight
What this shows « repasser » 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 | repasser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pɑ.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « repasser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around repasser (IPA \ʁə.pɑ.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,061 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for repasser, with forms such as "erpasser", "reapsser", and "repaser". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "reposer", "repenser", "repousser", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is repasser, spelled R-E-P-A-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Passer de nouveau.
- 2Revenir quelque part (personne), revenir à son origine (chose).
- 3Revenir par la pensée sur quelque chose.
- 4Être bredouille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repasser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La passade consiste à mener un cheval au galop sur une ligne droite et à exécuter une demi-volte ou une demi-pirouette ordinaire à chaque extrémité de cette ligne, de manière à la parcourir plusieurs fois de suite, en passant et repassant.
Le temps avait passé. Dix heures venaient de sonner à la vieille horloge comtoise dont le nombril de verre laissait voir la lentille de cuivre du balancier passer et repasser impitoyablement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpasser
- reapsser
- repaser
- repasesr
- repasserr
- repassre
- reppasser
- repsaser
- rpeasser
- rrepasser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repasser - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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