repent
\ʁə.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“repent” is uncommon French (frequency #67,838 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,838
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de se repentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repent · repent · French
repent · rank #67,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,838
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rescrit
Nearest frequency peer: rescrit (+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 « repent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renforçait
renforçait
32,167 corpus weight
- renient
renient
32,166 corpus weight
- repent
repent
32,163 corpus weight
- rescrit
rescrit
32,162 corpus weight
- ressaisi
ressaisi
32,161 corpus weight
- ressurgit
ressurgit
32,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repent is uncommon French at frequency #67,838 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de se repentir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for repent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 repent, spelled R-E-P-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de se repentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how repent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maigret se repent d’avoir été dur avec lui…
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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