respecter

/\ʁɛs.pɛk.te\/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,246

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

respecter is aFrenchverb. It means: Honorer ; révérer ; porter respect (à). Pronounced \ʁɛs.pɛk.te\. It ranks #2,246 in French word frequency. Often confused with respects and respectés.

Key facts for respecter
PropertyValue
Headwordrespecter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁɛs.pɛk.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#2,246
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of respecter in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for respecter is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛs.pɛk.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,246 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for respecter, with forms such as "erspecter", "repsecter", and "resepcter". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "respects", "respectés", "respectez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is respecter, spelled R-E-S-P-E-C-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Honorer ; révérer ; porter respect (à).
  2. 2
    Se conformer à un pacte, un plan, une règle, etc.
  3. 3
    Épargner ; ne pas attaquer ; ne pas porter atteinte à.
  4. 4
    Adopter une attitude et un comportement qui témoigne une bonne opinion de soi-même, exempte de mépris.
  5. 5
    Être à la hauteur de sa réputation, de sa fonction.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erspecter,repsecter,resepcter,respceter,respeccter,respecetr,respecterr,respectre,respectter,respetcer,resppecter,resspecter,rrespecter,rsepecter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for respecter

Misspelling Variants of "respecter"

erspecter9repsecter9resepcter9respceter9respeccter10respecetr9respecterr10respectre9
Misspelling Variants of "respecter"

Frequency rank: #2,246 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "respecter"?
"respecter" is spelled R-E-S-P-E-C-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛs.pɛk.te\.
What does "respecter" mean?
As a verb, "respecter" means: Honorer ; révérer ; porter respect (à).
What words are commonly confused with "respecter"?
"respecter" is commonly confused with "respects", "respectés", "respectez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "respecter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "respecter" is \ʁɛs.pɛk.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "respecter" come from?
"respecter" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.