repens
\ʁə.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“repens” is uncommon French (frequency #51,086 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,086
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De repentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repens · repens · French
repens · rank #51,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,086
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repartez
Nearest frequency peer: repartez (-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 « repens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renforcera
renforcera
48,918 corpus weight
- rentrerait
rentrerait
48,917 corpus weight
- repartez
repartez
48,916 corpus weight
- repens
repens
48,915 corpus weight
- reprenaient
reprenaient
48,913 corpus weight
- request
request
48,912 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repens is uncommon French at frequency #51,086 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De repentir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for repens in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 repens, spelled R-E-P-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1De repentir.
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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