respirais
\ʁɛs.pi.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“respirais” is uncommon French (frequency #93,171 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,171
- 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 respirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-respirais · respirais · French
respirais · rank #93,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,171
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH resemble
Nearest frequency peer: resemble (-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 « respirais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repiquage
repiquage
6,833 corpus weight
- reproductri…
reproductrice
6,832 corpus weight
- resemble
resemble
6,831 corpus weight
- respirais
respirais
6,830 corpus weight
- ressers
ressers
6,829 corpus weight
- ressortiront
ressortiront
6,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « respirais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | respirais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.pi.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « respirais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
respirais is uncommon French at frequency #93,171 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɛs.pi.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
respirais has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is respirais, spelled R-E-S-P-I-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de respirer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de respirer.
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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