repreneur
\ʁə.pʁə.nœʁ\
The verdict
“repreneur” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,976. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,976
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne, entité, etc. qui reprend quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repreneur · repreneur · French
repreneur · rank #39,976 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,976
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repost
Nearest frequency peer: repost (-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 « repreneur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rendraient
rendraient
60,028 corpus weight
- renégociati…
renégociation
60,027 corpus weight
- repost
repost
60,026 corpus weight
- repreneur
repreneur
60,025 corpus weight
- reproduites
reproduites
60,023 corpus weight
- requérir
requérir
60,022 corpus weight
What this shows « repreneur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repreneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.pʁə.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « repreneur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around repreneur (IPA \ʁə.pʁə.nœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,976 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for repreneur, with forms such as "erpreneur", "reperneur", and "reppreneur". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "reprenez", "repreneurs", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is repreneur, spelled R-E-P-R-E-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne, entité, etc. qui reprend quelque chose.
- 2Personne morale ou personne physique qui acquiert une société, une entreprise, etc., en particulier une entreprise en difficulté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repreneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si une reprise venait à se concrétiser, les syndicats entameraient avec le repreneur éventuel des négociations sur les conditions de travail, sur les rémunérations, sur le statut, sur les acquis sociaux.
Cinq mois après l’annonce de la mise en vente du groupe de cinéma CGR (Circuit Georges-Raymond), dont la valeur était estimée à 1 milliard d'euros, « l’heure n’est pas encore aux discussions serrées avec un repreneur potentiel », indique Jocelyn Bouyssy, le directeur général.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpreneur
- reperneur
- reppreneur
- repreenur
- repreneru
- repreneurr
- reprenneur
- reprenuer
- reprneeur
- reprreneur
- rerpeneur
- rpereneur
- rrepreneur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repreneur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "repreneur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).