reprend

\ʁə.pʁɑ̃\

/\ʁə.pʁɑ̃\/ verb

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The verdict

“reprend” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,895
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de reprendre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-reprend · reprend · French

reprend · rank #2,895 · 11 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,895
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH repos

Nearest frequency peer: repos (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « reprend »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « reprend » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

reprend vs revend
71% similar
reprend vs reprends
88% similar
reprend vs reprenne
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for reprend
PropertyValue
Headwordreprend
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.pʁɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,895
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reprend »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).reprendse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « repos » (#2,894), « royale » (#2,896), « sec » (#2,897). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « reprend » est au #2,895. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around reprend (IPA \ʁə.pʁɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,895 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de reprendre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for reprend, with forms such as "erprend", "repernd", and "repprend". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "revend", "reprends", "reprenne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 reprend, spelled R-E-P-R-E-N-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de reprendre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how reprend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. S’accompagnant de son gimbri, il nous chante, d’une voix tantôt gutturale, tantôt nasillarde, d’interminables mélopées, que l’assistance reprend aux refrains avec des battements rythmiques des mains.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erprend
  • repernd
  • repprend
  • repredn
  • reprendd
  • reprennd
  • reprned
  • reprrend
  • rerpend
  • rperend
  • rreprend

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reprend - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

erprend2repernd2repprend1repredn2reprendd1reprennd1reprned2reprrend1
Edit distance from "reprend"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reprend"?
"reprend" is spelled R-E-P-R-E-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.pʁɑ̃\.
What does "reprend" mean?
As a verb, "reprend" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de reprendre.
What words are commonly confused with "reprend"?
"reprend" is commonly confused with "revend", "reprends", "reprenne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "reprend"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reprend" is \ʁə.pʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reprend" come from?
"reprend" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "reprend", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

trouvait11 variantsmessieurs11 variantsconneries11 variantsdétruit11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list