repiquer
\ʁə.pi.ke\
The verdict
“repiquer” is uncommon French (frequency #80,597 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,597
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Piquer à nouveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repiquer · repiquer · French
repiquer · rank #80,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,597
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Renucci
Nearest frequency peer: Renucci (-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 « repiquer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renforça
renforça
19,407 corpus weight
- renifleurs
renifleurs
19,406 corpus weight
- Renucci
Renucci
19,405 corpus weight
- repiquer
repiquer
19,404 corpus weight
- requalifié
requalifié
19,403 corpus weight
- resse
resse
19,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repiquer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repiquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pi.ke\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repiquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repiquer is uncommon French at frequency #80,597 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pi.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for repiquer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 repiquer, spelled R-E-P-I-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Piquer à nouveau.
- 2Replanter un jeune plant venu en semis.
- 3Réimprimer d'un document, en général à la suite d'une malfaçon.
- 4Redoubler.
- 5Réensemencer d'une colonie bactérienne.
- 6Synchroniser du son et de l'image, lors du montage.
- 7Prendre à nouveau quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repiquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un étranger eût ri de voir l’insouciance avec laquelle elle repiquait l’aiguille sans la moindre crainte de se blesser.
Son maigre chignon en perdait des épingles, qu’elle devait sans cesse repiquer de ses doigts osseux.
This word in other languages
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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