riposter
\ʁi.pɔs.te\
The verdict
“riposter” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,569. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,569
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Répondre, repartir vivement et sur-le-champ pour repousser quelque raillerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-riposter · riposter · French
riposter · rank #32,569 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,569
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rigolos
Nearest frequency peer: rigolos (-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 « riposter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- resterons
resterons
67,436 corpus weight
- Rf
Rf
67,435 corpus weight
- rigolos
rigolos
67,433 corpus weight
- riposter
riposter
67,432 corpus weight
- rosier
rosier
67,431 corpus weight
- réchauffé
réchauffé
67,428 corpus weight
What this shows « riposter » 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 | riposter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi.pɔs.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « riposter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around riposter (IPA \ʁi.pɔs.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,569 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for riposter, with forms such as "irposter", "riopster", and "riposetr". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "reposer", "riposte", "reporter", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 riposter, spelled R-I-P-O-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Répondre, repartir vivement et sur-le-champ pour repousser quelque raillerie.
- 2Répondre vivement à une injure, à un coup, à un acte quelconque.
- 3Parer et porter la botte du même mouvement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how riposter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À qui prendrait à son compte le mot de M de Boureuille je riposterais que le talent, pour un chef, c'est de modérer les impétuosités des jeunes hommes en les admonestant doucement, sans les décourager par des paroles de glace.
Il lui riposta quelque chose qui le fit taire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irposter
- riopster
- riposetr
- riposster
- riposterr
- ripostre
- ripostter
- ripotser
- ripposter
- ripsoter
- rpioster
- rriposter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of riposter - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "riposter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).