retaper
\ʁə.ta.pe\
The verdict
“retaper” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,868. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,868
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remettre en état ce qui a été froissé, bossué, détérioré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retaper · retaper · French
retaper · rank #33,868 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,868
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reptile
Nearest frequency peer: reptile (-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 « retaper »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remportera
remportera
66,136 corpus weight
- remportés
remportés
66,135 corpus weight
- reptile
reptile
66,134 corpus weight
- retaper
retaper
66,133 corpus weight
- retournait
retournait
66,132 corpus weight
- revendeur
revendeur
66,131 corpus weight
What this shows « retaper » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retaper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ta.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retaper »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around retaper (IPA \ʁə.ta.pe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,868 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for retaper, with forms such as "ertaper", "reatper", and "retaepr". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "retirer", "retarder", "retracer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is retaper, spelled R-E-T-A-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Remettre en état ce qui a été froissé, bossué, détérioré.
- 2Remanier, récupérer.
- 3Rétablir sa santé, ses affaires.
- 4Taper à nouveau.
- 5Redoubler une classe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retaper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prenons Notre-Dame de Paris ; elle a été rafistolée et retapée de fond en comble ; ses sculptures sont rapiécées quand elles ne sont pas toutes modernes ; […].
C’était un « melon » qui naturellement, subissait toutes les phases du cabossage et de l’aplatissement. Son possesseur avait beau le retaper, l’épousseter, le placer à distance, une fatalité sournoise voulait que, tout à coup, tantôt l’un, tantôt l’autre des acrobates s’élançât à pieds joints sur lui.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertaper
- reatper
- retaepr
- retaperr
- retapper
- retapre
- retpaer
- rettaper
- rretaper
- rteaper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retaper - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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