repriser
\ʁə.pʁi.ze\
The verdict
“repriser” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Raccommoder en faisant une reprise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repriser · repriser · French
repriser · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repriser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.pʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « repriser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
repriser is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.pʁi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Raccommoder en faisant une reprise.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for repriser, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 repriser, spelled R-E-P-R-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Raccommoder en faisant une reprise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repriser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pierre tint serrés les cordons de sa bourse ; il ne voulut pas entendre parler d’embellissements ; l’ancien mobilier, fané, usé, éclopé, dut servir sans être seulement réparé. Félicité, qui sentait vivement, d’ailleurs, les raisons de cette ladrerie, s’ingénia pour donner un nouveau lustre à toutes ces ruines ; elle recloua elle-même certains meubles plus…
Et, dans l’après-midi, tandis que les enfants dormaient dans la maison silencieuse, Zaheira s’appliqua à recoudre des boutons, à repasser des cravates, à repriser des chaussettes.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.