repêchée
\ʁə.pe.ʃe\
The verdict
“repêchée” is uncommon French (frequency #79,678 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,678
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de repêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repechee · repêchée · French
repêchée · rank #79,678 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,678
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH replacée
Nearest frequency peer: replacée (-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 « repêchée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rencontrions
rencontrions
20,327 corpus weight
- repeints
repeints
20,325 corpus weight
- replacée
replacée
20,324 corpus weight
- repêchée
repêchée
20,323 corpus weight
- ressaisie
ressaisie
20,321 corpus weight
- retraire
retraire
20,320 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repêchée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repêchée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pe.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repêchée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repêchée is uncommon French at frequency #79,678 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pe.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de repêcher.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for repêchée in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 repêchée, spelled R-E-P-Ê-C-H-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de repêcher.
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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