repérer
\ʁə.pe.ʁe\
The verdict
“repérer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,455. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,455
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marquer, indiquer des repères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reperer · repérer · French
repérer · rank #8,455 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,455
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renvoyé
Nearest frequency peer: renvoyé (-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 « repérer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reculer
reculer
91,549 corpus weight
- regrets
regrets
91,548 corpus weight
- renvoyé
renvoyé
91,547 corpus weight
- repérer
repérer
91,546 corpus weight
- restrictions
restrictions
91,545 corpus weight
- reçues
reçues
91,543 corpus weight
What this shows « repérer » 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 | repérer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « repérer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around repérer (IPA \ʁə.pe.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,455 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for repérer, with forms such as "erpérer", "reperer", and "reppérer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "répète", "retirer", "reposer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 repérer, spelled R-E-P-É-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Marquer, indiquer des repères.
- 2Découvrir à l’aide de repères.
- 3Attirer l’attention, être découvert, remarqué alors qu’on se cachait.
- 4Indiquer la position d’un point par ses coordonnées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repérer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Repérer le niveau d’un terrain.
Repérer l’emplacement des batteries ennemies.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpérer
- reperer
- reppérer
- repréer
- repéerr
- repérerr
- repérre
- repérrer
- reéprer
- rpeérer
- rrepérer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repérer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "repérer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).