repos
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.po\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Privation, cessation de mouvement, d’activité ou d’effort.
- 2Cessation de travail, d’exercice, pour faire disparaître la fatigue.
- 3Ordre donné pour suspendre l’exercice et permettre aux soldats de se délasser.
- 4Quiétude, tranquillité, exemption de toute peine d’esprit.
- 5Exemption de trouble, d’agitation ; tranquillité, en parlant des États.
- 6Sommeil.
- 7Le repos éternel, la mort.
- 8État où est une arme à feu, lorsque, le chien n’est ni abattu, ni bandé, mais maintenu par un cran spécial.
- 9Césure placée à tel ou tel endroit du vers, pour marquer une pause, un arrêt.
- 10Pause que l’on fait en prononçant un discours, en déclamant, en lisant à haute voix.
- 11morceau, passage d’une lecture facile, destinés à procurer une détente à l’esprit du lecteur, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
- 12Attitude des figures représentées sans mouvement ou avec peu de mouvement.
- 13Sorte 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"
Frequency rank: #2,894 in French
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