reposailles
\ʁə.po.zaj\
The verdict
“reposailles” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Période de repos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reposailles · reposailles · French
reposailles · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reposailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.po.zaj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
reposailles is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.po.zaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reposailles, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is reposailles, spelled R-E-P-O-S-A-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Période de repos.
- 2Fin de semaine ; week-end.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reposailles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutefois, il est prudent, dans une halte, de ne point s'abandonner au dolce farniente d'une manière trop absolue, crainte de voir le gibier assister audacieusement à vos reposailles.
Lors des prochaines reposailles, se dérouleront les bourses moto de Sainte Geneviève des Bois (91), le samedi et de Elbeuf (76), le dimanche.
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.