respectais
\ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ\
The verdict
“respectais” is uncommon French (frequency #71,011 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,011
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de respecter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-respectais · respectais · French
respectais · rank #71,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,011
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reproduis
Nearest frequency peer: reproduis (-2 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 « respectais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repeter
repeter
28,994 corpus weight
- reproductif
reproductif
28,993 corpus weight
- reproduis
reproduis
28,992 corpus weight
- respectais
respectais
28,990 corpus weight
- ressentant
ressentant
28,988 corpus weight
- resserrés
resserrés
28,987 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « respectais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | respectais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « respectais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
respectais is uncommon French at frequency #71,011 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for respectais, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is respectais, spelled R-E-S-P-E-C-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de respecter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de respecter.
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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