riposte
\ʁi.pɔst\
The verdict
“riposte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,229. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,229
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réponse vive faite sur-le-champ, repartie prompte à quelque raillerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-riposte · riposte · French
riposte · rank #16,229 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,229
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restreinte
Nearest frequency peer: restreinte (-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 « riposte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reliées
reliées
83,775 corpus weight
- remorque
remorque
83,774 corpus weight
- restreinte
restreinte
83,773 corpus weight
- riposte
riposte
83,772 corpus weight
- Roméo
Roméo
83,771 corpus weight
- réjouis
réjouis
83,770 corpus weight
What this shows « riposte » 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 | riposte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.pɔst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « riposte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around riposte (IPA \ʁi.pɔst\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,229 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for riposte, with forms such as "irposte", "riopste", and "riposet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "riposter", "reposé", "repost", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is riposte, spelled R-I-P-O-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Réponse vive faite sur-le-champ, repartie prompte à quelque raillerie.
- 2Ce qui se fait sur-le-champ en réponse à une injure, à un coup, à un acte quelconque.
- 3Action de défense par l'attaque.
- 4Botte que l’on porte après avoir paré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how riposte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avoir la riposte prête, la riposte en main.
Être prompt, être vif à la riposte.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irposte
- riopste
- riposet
- riposste
- ripostte
- ripotse
- ripposte
- ripsote
- rpioste
- rriposte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of riposte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).