repose en paix

/\ʁə.po.z‿ɑ̃ pɛ\/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

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repose en paix is aFrenchphrase. It means: Formule apparaissant sur les tombes ou les stèles funéraires dans la plupart des pays chrétiens. Pronounced \ʁə.po.z‿ɑ̃ pɛ\.

Key facts for repose en paix
PropertyValue
Headwordrepose en paix
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\ʁə.po.z‿ɑ̃ pɛ\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

repose en paix is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for repose en paix is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.po.z‿ɑ̃ pɛ\. 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: "Formule apparaissant sur les tombes ou les stèles funéraires dans la plupart des pays chrétiens.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for repose en paix in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 repose en paix, spelled R-E-P-O-S-E- -E-N- -P-A-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Formule apparaissant sur les tombes ou les stèles funéraires dans la plupart des pays chrétiens.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "repose en paix"?
"repose en paix" is spelled R-E-P-O-S-E- -E-N- -P-A-I-X. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.po.z‿ɑ̃ pɛ\.
What does "repose en paix" mean?
As a phrase, "repose en paix" means: Formule apparaissant sur les tombes ou les stèles funéraires dans la plupart des pays chrétiens.
How do you pronounce "repose en paix"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "repose en paix" is \ʁə.po.z‿ɑ̃ pɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "repose en paix" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.