reposait
\ʁə.po.zɛ\
The verdict
“reposait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,754. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,754
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de reposer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reposait · reposait · French
reposait · rank #21,754 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,754
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retournez
Nearest frequency peer: retournez (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « reposait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ready
ready
78,250 corpus weight
- redémarrer
redémarrer
78,249 corpus weight
- reposait
reposait
78,247 corpus weight
- retournez
retournez
78,246 corpus weight
- roquette
roquette
78,245 corpus weight
- Ruiz
Ruiz
78,244 corpus weight
What this shows « reposait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reposait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.po.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reposait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around reposait (IPA \ʁə.po.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,754 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de reposer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for reposait, with forms such as "erposait", "reopsait", and "repoasit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "repost", "reposent", "reposant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is reposait, spelled R-E-P-O-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de reposer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reposait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle a été repérée sur le museau d’un crocodile estuarien qui se reposait dans une petite rivière au cœur d’une forêt proche de la ville de Balangan, en Indonésie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erposait
- reopsait
- repoasit
- reposaitt
- reposati
- reposiat
- repossait
- repposait
- repsoait
- rpeosait
- rreposait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reposait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).