repoussoir
\ʁə.pu.swaʁ\
The verdict
“repoussoir” is uncommon French (frequency #56,880 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,880
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil qui sert à faire sortir des clous, des chevilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repoussoir · repoussoir · French
repoussoir · rank #56,880 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,880
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reportent
Nearest frequency peer: reportent (-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 « repoussoir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repassent
repassent
43,124 corpus weight
- repo
repo
43,123 corpus weight
- reportent
reportent
43,122 corpus weight
- repoussoir
repoussoir
43,121 corpus weight
- reproductive
reproductive
43,120 corpus weight
- représentan…
représentantes
43,119 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « repoussoir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repoussoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.pu.swaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repoussoir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repoussoir is uncommon French at frequency #56,880 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.pu.swaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for repoussoir in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is repoussoir, spelled R-E-P-O-U-S-S-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Outil qui sert à faire sortir des clous, des chevilles.
- 2Instrument ou outil qui sert à faire ressortir les reliefs.
- 3Objet vigoureux de couleur ou très ombré, qu’on place sur le devant d’un tableau, pour faire paraître les autres objets plus éloignés.
- 4Personne ou chose qui suscite le rejet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repoussoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un repoussoir d’orfèvre, de sculpteur, etc.
Madame Marneffe, la figure radieuse de bonheur, fit son entrée dans le salon avec une grâce modeste, suivie de Bette, qui, mise tout en noir et jeune, lui servait de repoussoir, en terme d’atelier.
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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