comportement de retrait
\kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tə.mɑ̃ d(ə) ʁə.tʁɛ\
The verdict
“comportement de retrait” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comportement adopté par un animal qui cherche à éviter une chose ou un être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comportement-de-retrait · comportement de retrait · French
comportement de retrait · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 23 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comportement de retrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tə.mɑ̃ d(ə) ʁə.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comportement de retrait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comportement de retrait is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tə.mɑ̃ d(ə) ʁə.tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Comportement adopté par un animal qui cherche à éviter une chose ou un être.".
No misspelling variants are generated for comportement de retrait in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 comportement de retrait, spelled C-O-M-P-O-R-T-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -R-E-T-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Comportement adopté par un animal qui cherche à éviter une chose ou un être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how comportement de retrait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bernard Rollin, professeur de philosophie et de sciences animales à l'université du Colorado, explique que les chercheurs, dans leur effort pour ne pas employer envers les animaux les termes qui décrivent les émotions humaines, ne parlent pas de peur mais de « comportement de retrait »; … ils ne parlent pas de cris ou de gémissements de douleur, mais de «…
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.