répéta
\ʁe.pe.ta\
The verdict
“répéta” is uncommon French (frequency #69,404 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,404
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de répéter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | répéta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.pe.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “répéta” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
répéta is uncommon French at frequency #69,404 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.pe.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de répéter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for répéta in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is répéta, spelled R-É-P-É-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de répéter.
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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Using “répéta”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-É-P-É-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.