répugnent
\ʁe.pyɲ\
The verdict
“répugnent” is uncommon French (frequency #84,278 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,278
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de répugner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repugnent · répugnent · French
répugnent · rank #84,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,278
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réjouissaient
Nearest frequency peer: réjouissaient (-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 « répugnent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réchauffant
réchauffant
15,727 corpus weight
- réinventée
réinventée
15,725 corpus weight
- réjouissaie…
réjouissaient
15,724 corpus weight
- répugnent
répugnent
15,723 corpus weight
- résistons
résistons
15,722 corpus weight
- rétribuer
rétribuer
15,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « répugnent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | répugnent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.pyɲ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « répugnent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
répugnent is uncommon French at frequency #84,278 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.pyɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for répugnent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is répugnent, spelled R-É-P-U-G-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de répugner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de répugner.
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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