repos

/\ʁə.po\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,894

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

repos is aFrenchnoun. It means: Privation, cessation de mouvement, d’activité ou d’effort. Pronounced \ʁə.po\. It ranks #2,894 in French word frequency. Often confused with res and ros.

Key facts for repos
PropertyValue
Headwordrepos
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.po\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,894
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of repos in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for repos is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.po\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,894 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for repos, with forms such as "erpos", "reops", and "reposs". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "res", "ros", "reus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is repos, spelled R-E-P-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Privation, cessation de mouvement, d’activité ou d’effort.
  2. 2
    Cessation de travail, d’exercice, pour faire disparaître la fatigue.
  3. 3
    Ordre donné pour suspendre l’exercice et permettre aux soldats de se délasser.
  4. 4
    Quiétude, tranquillité, exemption de toute peine d’esprit.
  5. 5
    Exemption de trouble, d’agitation ; tranquillité, en parlant des États.
  6. 6
    Sommeil.
  7. 7
    Le repos éternel, la mort.
  8. 8
    État où est une arme à feu, lorsque, le chien n’est ni abattu, ni bandé, mais maintenu par un cran spécial.
  9. 9
    Césure placée à tel ou tel endroit du vers, pour marquer une pause, un arrêt.
  10. 10
    Pause que l’on fait en prononçant un discours, en déclamant, en lisant à haute voix.
  11. 11
    morceau, passage d’une lecture facile, destinés à procurer une détente à l’esprit du lecteur, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
  12. 12
    Attitude des figures représentées sans mouvement ou avec peu de mouvement.
  13. 13
    Sorte de petit palier qui interrompt la suite des marches entre deux étages.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erpos,reops,reposs,reppos,repso,rpeos,rrepos

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for repos

Misspelling Variants of "repos"

erpos5reops5reposs6reppos6repso5rpeos5rrepos6
Misspelling Variants of "repos"

Frequency rank: #2,894 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "repos"?
"repos" is spelled R-E-P-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.po\.
What does "repos" mean?
As a noun, "repos" means: Privation, cessation de mouvement, d’activité ou d’effort.
What words are commonly confused with "repos"?
"repos" is commonly confused with "res", "ros", "reus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "repos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "repos" is \ʁə.po\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "repos" come from?
"repos" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.