repos éternel
\ʁə.po e.tɛʁ.nɛl\
The verdict
“repos éternel” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mort (cessation de la vie).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repos éternel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.po e.tɛʁ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “repos éternel” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for repos éternel is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.po e.tɛʁ.nɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mort (cessation de la vie).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for repos éternel, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 repos éternel, spelled R-E-P-O-S- -É-T-E-R-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Mort (cessation de la vie).
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “repos éternel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-P-O-S- -É-T-E-R-N-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.po e.tɛʁ.nɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.