repoussa
\ʁə.pu.sa\
The verdict
“repoussa” is uncommon French (frequency #57,557 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,557
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de repousser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repoussa · repoussa · French
repoussa · rank #57,557 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,557
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repliées
Nearest frequency peer: repliées (-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 « repoussa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- remodelage
remodelage
42,447 corpus weight
- repliées
repliées
42,445 corpus weight
- repoussa
repoussa
42,444 corpus weight
- repoussait
repoussait
42,443 corpus weight
- retentissent
retentissent
42,441 corpus weight
- Rethel
Rethel
42,440 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repoussa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repoussa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pu.sa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repoussa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repoussa is uncommon French at frequency #57,557 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pu.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de repousser.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for repoussa, 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 its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is repoussa, spelled R-E-P-O-U-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de repousser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how repoussa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y tint plus, repoussa d’un coup de pied courtepointe et plumasse. Assez hésitaillé ! Il avait menti mais n’avait pas juré sur l'Évangile.
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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