reproche

/\ʁə.pʁɔʃ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,980

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

reproche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de reprocher. Pronounced \ʁə.pʁɔʃ\. It ranks #4,980 in French word frequency. Often confused with reprocher and reprochés.

Key facts for reproche
PropertyValue
Headwordreproche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.pʁɔʃ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,980
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for reproche is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.pʁɔʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,980 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Action de reprocher.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for reproche, with forms such as "erproche", "reporche", and "repproche". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "reprocher", "reprochés", "reprochez", 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 reproche, spelled R-E-P-R-O-C-H-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 reprocher.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erproche,reporche,repproche,reprcohe,reprocche,reproceh,reprochhe,reprohce,reprroche,rerpoche,rperoche,rreproche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reproche

Misspelling Variants of "reproche"

erproche8reporche8repproche9reprcohe8reprocche9reproceh8reprochhe9reprohce8
Misspelling Variants of "reproche"

Frequency rank: #4,980 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reproche"?
"reproche" is spelled R-E-P-R-O-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.pʁɔʃ\.
What does "reproche" mean?
As a noun, "reproche" means: Action de reprocher.
What words are commonly confused with "reproche"?
"reproche" is commonly confused with "reprocher", "reprochés", "reprochez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "reproche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reproche" is \ʁə.pʁɔʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reproche" come from?
"reproche" 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.