respecte

\ʁɛs.pɛkt\

/\ʁɛs.pɛkt\/ verb

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The verdict

“respecte” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,711. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,711
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de respecter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-respecte · respecte · French

respecte · rank #3,711 · 12 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,711
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH Rhône

Nearest frequency peer: Rhône (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « respecte »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « respecte » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

respecte vs respects
88% similar
respecte vs ressente
75% similar
respecte vs respecter
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for respecte
PropertyValue
Headwordrespecte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁɛs.pɛkt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,711
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « respecte »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).respectese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Rhône » (#3,712), « renforcer » (#3,709), « référendum » (#3,713). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « respecte » est au #3,711. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around respecte (IPA \ʁɛs.pɛkt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,711 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for respecte, with forms such as "erspecte", "repsecte", and "resepcte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "respects", "ressente", "respecter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is respecte, spelled R-E-S-P-E-C-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de respecter.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de respecter.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de respecter.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de respecter.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de respecter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how respecte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le légalisme est la pratique qui respecte de manière absolue les lois religieuses prises à la lettre et qui soumet rigoureusement la vie religieuse à la régulation par les lois.
  2. Comme toute comédienne en herbe qui se respecte, j’arrive en avance à mon audition de 16 heures.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erspecte
  • repsecte
  • resepcte
  • respcete
  • respeccte
  • respecet
  • respectte
  • respetce
  • resppecte
  • resspecte
  • rrespecte
  • rsepecte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of respecte - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

erspecte2repsecte2resepcte2respcete2respeccte1respecet2respectte1respetce2
Edit distance from "respecte"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "respecte"?
"respecte" is spelled R-E-S-P-E-C-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛs.pɛkt\.
What does "respecte" mean?
As a verb, "respecte" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de respecter.
What words are commonly confused with "respecte"?
"respecte" is commonly confused with "respects", "ressente", "respecter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "respecte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "respecte" is \ʁɛs.pɛkt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "respecte" come from?
"respecte" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "respecte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

paraître#3,700organise#3,699voudrait#3,723migrants#3,695

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

lecteurs12 variantsapprécier12 variantsinscrire12 variantsconstate12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list