respirons
\ʁɛs.pi.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“respirons” is uncommon French (frequency #62,587 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,587
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de respirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-respirons · respirons · French
respirons · rank #62,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,587
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH resplendissant
Nearest frequency peer: resplendissant (+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 « respirons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- replacement
replacement
37,418 corpus weight
- reptiliens
reptiliens
37,417 corpus weight
- republié
republié
37,416 corpus weight
- respirons
respirons
37,414 corpus weight
- resplendiss…
resplendissant
37,413 corpus weight
- restreignent
restreignent
37,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « respirons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | respirons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.pi.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « respirons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
respirons is uncommon French at frequency #62,587 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɛs.pi.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
respirons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is respirons, spelled R-E-S-P-I-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de respirer.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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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