repoussez
\ʁə.pu.se\
The verdict
“repoussez” is uncommon French (frequency #81,502 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,502
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de repousser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repoussez · repoussez · French
repoussez · rank #81,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,502
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repensez
Nearest frequency peer: repensez (-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 « repoussez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repassés
repassés
18,502 corpus weight
- repayer
repayer
18,501 corpus weight
- repensez
repensez
18,500 corpus weight
- repoussez
repoussez
18,499 corpus weight
- repro
repro
18,498 corpus weight
- repérant
repérant
18,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repoussez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repoussez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pu.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repoussez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repoussez is uncommon French at frequency #81,502 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pu.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for repoussez, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is repoussez, spelled R-E-P-O-U-S-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de repousser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de repousser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how repoussez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne repoussez pas les offres d’aide.
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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