république
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#710
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
république is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chose publique, intérêt général. Pronounced \ʁe.py.blik\. It ranks #710 in French word frequency. Often confused with républiques and réplique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | république |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.py.blik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for république is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.py.blik\. Corpus data places it at rank #710 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for république, with forms such as "republique", "rpéublique", and "rrépublique". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "républiques", "réplique", 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 république, spelled R-É-P-U-B-L-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chose publique, intérêt général.
- 2Groupe considéré comme organisé et dont les membres partagent des traits communs.
- 3Groupe considéré comme organisé et dont les membres partagent des traits communs.
- 4Groupe considéré comme organisé et dont les membres partagent des traits communs.
- 5Régime politique non héréditaire. Antonymes : monarchie, empire.
- 6Régime politique non héréditaire. Antonymes : monarchie, empire.
- 7Régime politique non héréditaire. Antonymes : monarchie, empire.
- 8Lieu, pays organisé en république.
- 9Lieu, pays organisé en république.
- 10République française, régime particulier de cette organisation qui fixe les modalités de l’exercice du pouvoir en France ; l’État ainsi organisé.
- 11Allégorie de la république, représentée par une femme ; Marianne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: republique,rpéublique,rrépublique,répbulique,réppublique,répubblique,répubilque,républiqeu,républiqque,républiuqe,républlique,républqiue,répulbique,réupblique,érpublique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for république
Misspelling Variants of "république"
Frequency rank: #710 in French
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