reprise

/\ʁə.pʁiz\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,015

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

reprise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de reprendre. Pronounced \ʁə.pʁiz\. It ranks #2,015 in French word frequency. Often confused with révisé and requise.

Key facts for reprise
PropertyValue
Headwordreprise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.pʁiz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,015
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of reprise in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for reprise is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.pʁiz\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,015 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for reprise, with forms such as "erprise", "repirse", and "repprise". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "révisé", "requise", "reptile", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is reprise, spelled R-E-P-R-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de reprendre.
  2. 2
    Portion d’une partition que le musicien doit jouer deux fois ou plus.
  3. 3
    Œuvre interprétée par quelqu’un qui n’est pas l’artiste original.
  4. 4
    Action de reprendre après une pause.
  5. 5
    Rediffusion.
  6. 6
    Ce qui est repris.
  7. 7
    Ce que chacun des époux a droit, par lui ou ses représentants, de prélever, avant partage, sur la masse des biens de la communauté, lorsqu’elle est dissoute.
  8. 8
    Navire capturé par les ennemis et repris ensuite par la nation sur laquelle il avait été pris.
  9. 9
    Continuation de ce qui a été interrompu, réitération de ce qui a déjà été fait, recommencement.
  10. 10
    Continuation de ce qui a été interrompu, réitération de ce qui a déjà été fait, recommencement.
  11. 11
    Renouvellement et continuation d’un procès interrompu, lorsqu’il y a eu changement de parties ou d’avoué.
  12. 12
    Réparation, souvent assez mineure.
  13. 13
    Réparation, souvent assez mineure.
  14. 14
    Réparation, souvent assez mineure.
  15. 15
    Réparation, souvent assez mineure.
  16. 16
    Rachat, action de reprendre des actifs financiers.
  17. 17
    Période de combat de trois minutes, suivie d'une pause d'une minute.
  18. 18
    Maintien en vie, puis redémarrage de la croissance d’une plante après plantation.
  19. 19
    Couple, capacité d'un véhicule à reprendre de la vitesse.
  20. 20
    Somme d’argent versée par le nouvel occupant d’un bien au locataire précédent pour l’indemniser des dépenses engagées.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erprise,repirse,repprise,repries,reprisse,reprrise,reprsie,rerpise,rperise,rreprise

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reprise

Misspelling Variants of "reprise"

erprise7repirse7repprise8repries7reprisse8reprrise8reprsie7rerpise7
Misspelling Variants of "reprise"

Frequency rank: #2,015 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reprise"?
"reprise" is spelled R-E-P-R-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.pʁiz\.
What does "reprise" mean?
As a noun, "reprise" means: Action de reprendre.
What words are commonly confused with "reprise"?
"reprise" is commonly confused with "révisé", "requise", "reptile". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "reprise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reprise" is \ʁə.pʁiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reprise" come from?
"reprise" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.