répliqua
\ʁe.pli.ka\
The verdict
“répliqua” is uncommon French (frequency #54,241 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,241
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de répliquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repliqua · répliqua · French
répliqua · rank #54,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,241
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH répandant
Nearest frequency peer: répandant (-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 « répliqua »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réglait
réglait
45,763 corpus weight
- réinventé
réinventé
45,762 corpus weight
- répandant
répandant
45,761 corpus weight
- répliqua
répliqua
45,760 corpus weight
- rétorsion
rétorsion
45,759 corpus weight
- sablons
sablons
45,758 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « répliqua » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | répliqua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.pli.ka\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « répliqua » en français
Rare enough to double-check
répliqua is uncommon French at frequency #54,241 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.pli.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de répliquer.".
répliqua has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is répliqua, spelled R-É-P-L-I-Q-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de répliquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how répliqua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais non ! répliqua le père Nicolas, puisqu’on vous dit qu’il s’est ensauvé !
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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