repli
\ʁə.pli\
The verdict
“repli” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,465. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,465
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pli double.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repli · repli · French
repli · rank #12,465 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,465
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retarder
Nearest frequency peer: retarder (+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 « repli »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- redoute
redoute
87,539 corpus weight
- regrouper
regrouper
87,538 corpus weight
- repli
repli
87,536 corpus weight
- retarder
retarder
87,535 corpus weight
- rex
rex
87,534 corpus weight
- rey
rey
87,533 corpus weight
What this shows « repli » 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 | repli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.pli\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « repli »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around repli (IPA \ʁə.pli\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,465 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for repli, with forms such as "erpli", "relpi", and "repil". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "repos", "repris", "replié", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is repli, spelled R-E-P-L-I.
Definition
- 1Pli double.
- 2L'un des plis d'un ensemble de plis répétés.
- 3Sinuosité, cercle que forme un reptile quand il se meut ou s’agite ; dans ce sens, il s’emploie surtout au pluriel.
- 4Ce qu’il y a de plus secret, de plus caché dans l’âme.
- 5Retraite volontaire.
- 6Fait de se replier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire un repli à du papier, à une étoffe, à un vêtement.
Les replis d’une écharpe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpli
- relpi
- repil
- replli
- reppli
- rpeli
- rrepli
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repli - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "repli", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).