répudier
\ʁe.py.dje\
The verdict
“répudier” is uncommon French (frequency #79,705 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,705
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rejeter, repousser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repudier · répudier · French
répudier · rank #79,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,705
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH répriment
Nearest frequency peer: répriment (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « répudier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réduiront
réduiront
20,299 corpus weight
- réfléchissa…
réfléchissantes
20,298 corpus weight
- répriment
répriment
20,297 corpus weight
- répudier
répudier
20,296 corpus weight
- résida
résida
20,295 corpus weight
- réutilisée
réutilisée
20,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « répudier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | répudier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.py.dje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « répudier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
répudier is uncommon French at frequency #79,705 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.py.dje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for répudier, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is répudier, spelled R-É-P-U-D-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rejeter, repousser.
- 2Renvoyer sa femme suivant les formes légales.
- 3Renoncer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how répudier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
…elles conservent au milieu des dangers de la vie une dignité froide, […] qui leur permet d'être toujours fidèles à l'étiquette et à une noblesse de maintien que les mœurs nouvelles ont eu le grand tort de répudier.
Pour s'évader de la mentalité scolastique, il fallait répudier le réalisme des universaux qui suscitait quantité de pseudo-problèmes.
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); 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).