reposante
\ʁə.po.zɑ̃t\
The verdict
“reposante” is uncommon French (frequency #63,302 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,302
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de reposant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reposante · reposante · French
reposante · rank #63,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,302
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renvoyons
Nearest frequency peer: renvoyons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « reposante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renchérir
renchérir
36,702 corpus weight
- renfermée
renfermée
36,701 corpus weight
- renvoyons
renvoyons
36,700 corpus weight
- reposante
reposante
36,699 corpus weight
- retirons
retirons
36,698 corpus weight
- revendant
revendant
36,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reposante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reposante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.po.zɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reposante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reposante is uncommon French at frequency #63,302 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.po.zɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de reposant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for reposante in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 reposante, spelled R-E-P-O-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de reposant.
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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