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reprise

French, noun

reprise is spelled R-E-P-R-I-S-E (7 letters) and appears 42 times per million words in written French, the 1,996th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Reprise is a French feminine noun meaning “time, instance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of repris. With an accent, reprisé is a different word: “past participle of repriser”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de reprendre”.

What does reprise mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininetime, instance

    à plusieurs reprises

  2. 2

    femininestart after a pause, e.g. a second-half kick-off

  3. 3

    femininea round

  4. 4

    feminineeconomic recovery

  5. 5

    femininea reprise

  6. 6

    femininea cover, cover version

  7. 7

    femininea repeat, rerun

  8. 8

    femininean action replay

verb

  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of repris

    Cette information a été reprise par les principaux canaux médiatiques.

verb

as reprisé
  1. 1

    past participle of repriser

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action de reprendre. 2. Portion d’une partition que le musicien doit jouer deux fois ou plus. 3. Œuvre interprétée par quelqu’un qui n’est pas l’artiste original. 4. Action de reprendre après une pause.

interjection: 1. S’emploie pour ordonner aux joueurs de reprendre la partie après une pause.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of reprise

  • reprises plural
  • reprisée feminine
  • reprisés masculine plural
  • reprisées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to reprise

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is reprise in French?

reprise appears 42 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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