répugnantes
\ʁe.py.ɲɑ̃t\
The verdict
“répugnantes” is uncommon French (frequency #87,126 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,126
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de répugnant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repugnantes · répugnantes · French
répugnantes · rank #87,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,126
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rétines
Nearest frequency peer: rétines (+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 « répugnantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réitérant
réitérant
12,878 corpus weight
- répands
répands
12,877 corpus weight
- répugnantes
répugnantes
12,875 corpus weight
- rétines
rétines
12,874 corpus weight
- rêvés
rêvés
12,873 corpus weight
- rôdait
rôdait
12,872 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « répugnantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | répugnantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.py.ɲɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « répugnantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
répugnantes is uncommon French at frequency #87,126 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁe.py.ɲɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de répugnant.".
répugnantes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 répugnantes, spelled R-É-P-U-G-N-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de répugnant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how répugnantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des éclats de pierres le déchirèrent, par mille plaies béantes et répugnantes ; l’humidité lui monta dans le corps, ballonna son ventre, termita ses poumons.
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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