reposéevsrepostTell them apart

Quick tell: reposée is a noun, repost is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“reposée” is a noun and “repost” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,012
“reposée” frequency rank
#39,975
“repost” frequency rank
77987
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reposée repost
Definition Lieu où une bête sauvage se repose. Caché.

Letter map: reposée vs repost

Shared letters muted; letters that set reposée and repost apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. reposée runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against repost's 6 (CVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
reposée
6 ch
repost

Role in the sentence - reposée and repost

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reposée is anoun and repostanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77987, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reposée is recorded at frequency rank #38,012, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.po.ze\. repost is at rank #39,975, tagged as anadj.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 77987, this pair ranks #26,932 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of reposée vs repost

Shared letters: eoprs. Private to "reposée": é. Private to "repost": t.

"reposée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "repost" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • repost ← erpost · reopst · reposst · repostt · repots · reppost · repsot · rpeost

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "reposée" for "repost" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reposée" is a noun and "repost" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "reposée" or "repost" show up more?
"reposée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,012 in our French list, against #39,975 for "repost". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "reposée" and "repost".

  • Full dictionary entry for "reposée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "repost" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #26,932 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reposée" and "repost" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reposée vs reposera". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #26,932 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list