repenser
\ʁə.pɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“repenser” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,048. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,048
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Penser de nouveau, réfléchir plus profondément sur une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repenser · repenser · French
repenser · rank #13,048 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,048
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rendements
Nearest frequency peer: rendements (-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 « repenser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- quotas
quotas
86,957 corpus weight
- Reich
Reich
86,955 corpus weight
- rendements
rendements
86,954 corpus weight
- repenser
repenser
86,953 corpus weight
- requise
requise
86,952 corpus weight
- respectée
respectée
86,951 corpus weight
What this shows « repenser » 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 | repenser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « repenser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around repenser (IPA \ʁə.pɑ̃.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,048 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for repenser, with forms such as "erpenser", "reepnser", and "repenesr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "réponse", "reposer", "repérer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is repenser, spelled R-E-P-E-N-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Penser de nouveau, réfléchir plus profondément sur une chose.
- 2Reviser profondément, en modifiant les fondements, en parlant des œuvres de l’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repenser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle repense à ce comédien qui, pendant qu’elle ajustait son costume, lui contait avec force détails l’accouplement zoophilique auquel il avait assisté sous un chapiteau en compagnie d’une trentaine d’autres gringos.
Je repense à une chose, murmura Marie-Thérèse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpenser
- reepnser
- repenesr
- repennser
- repenserr
- repensre
- repensser
- repesner
- repneser
- reppenser
- rpeenser
- rrepenser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repenser - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "repenser", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).