repoussante
\ʁə.pu.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“repoussante” is uncommon French (frequency #67,068 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,068
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de repoussant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repoussante · repoussante · French
repoussante · rank #67,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,068
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repassée
Nearest frequency peer: repassée (-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 « repoussante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renouant
renouant
32,937 corpus weight
- renouvellera
renouvellera
32,936 corpus weight
- repair
repair
32,935 corpus weight
- repassée
repassée
32,934 corpus weight
- repoussante
repoussante
32,933 corpus weight
- rida
rida
32,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repoussante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repoussante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.pu.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repoussante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repoussante is uncommon French at frequency #67,068 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.pu.sɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de repoussant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for repoussante in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is repoussante, spelled R-E-P-O-U-S-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de repoussant.
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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