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repêchage

repêchage is the alternative spelling of repechage.

Meaning of repechage

Noun

repechage (countable and uncountable, plural repechages)

  1. (countable) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.
  2. (uncountable) The use of this form of competition.

Forms of repêchage

pluralrepêchages

Questions about repêchage

What is repêchage the alternative spelling of?
Repêchage is the alternative spelling of repechage.

Words near repêchage in the dictionary

  1. reputty
  2. reputtying
  3. Repyakhovka
  4. repyne
  5. repynes
  6. repêchage
  7. repêchages
  8. req
  9. req'd
  10. req.
  11. reqd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repêchage (page history and authors); repechage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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