reprends

\ʁə.pʁɑ̃\

/\ʁə.pʁɑ̃\/ verb

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The verdict

“reprends” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,120
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-reprends · reprends · French

reprends · rank #11,120 · 13 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,120
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH renouvelé

Nearest frequency peer: renouvelé (-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 « reprends »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « reprends » 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).

reprends vs reprenne
75% similar
reprends vs reprenez
75% similar
reprends vs reprenons
78% similar

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

Key facts for reprends
PropertyValue
Headwordreprends
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.pʁɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#11,120
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reprends »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.reprendsse 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 « renouvelé » (#11,119), « requiert » (#11,121), « renforcée » (#11,118). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « reprends » est au #11,120. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around reprends (IPA \ʁə.pʁɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,120 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for reprends, with forms such as "erprends", "repernds", and "repprends". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "reprenne", "reprenez", "reprenons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented 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 reprends, spelled R-E-P-R-E-N-D-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de reprendre.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de reprendre.
  3. 3
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de reprendre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Je reprends un bon bol d’air et, adoptant un crawl dans le plus pur style Laure Manaudou, j’essaie de mettre le plus de distance possible entre moi et ce foutu camping-car qui ne va pas tarder à cataclysmer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erprends
  • repernds
  • repprends
  • repredns
  • reprendds
  • reprendss
  • reprennds
  • reprensd
  • reprneds
  • reprrends
  • rerpends
  • rperends
  • rreprends

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reprends - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

erprends2repernds2repprends1repredns2reprendds1reprendss1reprennds1reprensd2
Edit distance from "reprends"

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

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

requiert#11,121remontée#11,117robinson#11,124prolonge#11,108

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

renouvelé13 variantstrancher13 variantsmoustache13 variantsinterrompu13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list