repayer
\ʁə.pɛ.je\
The verdict
“repayer” is uncommon French (frequency #81,500 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,500
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Payer de nouveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repayer · repayer · French
repayer · rank #81,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,500
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repassés
Nearest frequency peer: repassés (-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 « repayer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- render
render
18,504 corpus weight
- renter
renter
18,503 corpus weight
- repassés
repassés
18,502 corpus weight
- repayer
repayer
18,501 corpus weight
- repensez
repensez
18,500 corpus weight
- repoussez
repoussez
18,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repayer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repayer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repayer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repayer is uncommon French at frequency #81,500 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pɛ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for repayer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is repayer, spelled R-E-P-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Payer de nouveau.
- 2Compenser, se rembourser de nouveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repayer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que dalle, fit René, s’il en reveut, y repaye…
Si s’adresse vers Gaheriet, et luy donne tel coup parmi le heaulme, qu’il lui faict tous les yeulx estinceler, et Gaheriet lui repaie tel comme il peut ramener.
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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