repérant
\ʁə.pe.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“repérant” is uncommon French (frequency #81,504 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,504
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de repérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reperant · repérant · French
repérant · rank #81,504 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,504
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repro
Nearest frequency peer: repro (-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 « repérant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repensez
repensez
18,500 corpus weight
- repoussez
repoussez
18,499 corpus weight
- repro
repro
18,498 corpus weight
- repérant
repérant
18,497 corpus weight
- resplendit
resplendit
18,496 corpus weight
- responsabil…
responsabilise
18,495 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repérant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repérant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pe.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repérant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repérant is uncommon French at frequency #81,504 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pe.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de repérer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for repérant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is repérant, spelled R-E-P-É-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de repérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how repérant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Lors d’un arrêt cardiaque, il faut intervenir très rapidement et être citoyen-acteur en repérant un défibrillateur et en le mettant en œuvre le plus rapidement possible », explique Jérémy Crunchant.
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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