reprise
\ʁə.pʁiz\
The verdict
“reprise” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,015 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,015
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de reprendre.
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 | reprise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.pʁiz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “reprise” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for reprise is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for reprise, with forms such as "erprise", "repirse", and "repprise". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "révisé", "requise", "reptile", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is reprise, spelled R-E-P-R-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Action de reprendre.
- 2Portion d’une partition que le musicien doit jouer deux fois ou plus.
- 3Œuvre interprétée par quelqu’un qui n’est pas l’artiste original.
- 4Action de reprendre après une pause.
- 5Rediffusion.
- 6Ce qui est repris.
- 7Ce 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.
- 8Navire capturé par les ennemis et repris ensuite par la nation sur laquelle il avait été pris.
- 9Continuation de ce qui a été interrompu, réitération de ce qui a déjà été fait, recommencement.
- 10Continuation de ce qui a été interrompu, réitération de ce qui a déjà été fait, recommencement.
- 11Renouvellement et continuation d’un procès interrompu, lorsqu’il y a eu changement de parties ou d’avoué.
- 12Réparation, souvent assez mineure.
- 13Réparation, souvent assez mineure.
- 14Réparation, souvent assez mineure.
- 15Réparation, souvent assez mineure.
- 16Rachat, action de reprendre des actifs financiers.
- 17Période de combat de trois minutes, suivie d'une pause d'une minute.
- 18Maintien en vie, puis redémarrage de la croissance d’une plante après plantation.
- 19Couple, capacité d'un véhicule à reprendre de la vitesse.
- 20Somme d’argent versée par le nouvel occupant d’un bien au locataire précédent pour l’indemniser des dépenses engagées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erprise,repirse,repprise,repries,reprisse,reprrise,reprsie,rerpise,rperise,rreprise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reprise - 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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Using “reprise”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-P-R-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.pʁiz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “révisé” - see the side-by-side comparison. reprise vs révisé
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.