couteau à lame rétractable
\ku.to a lam ʁe.tʁak.tabl\
The verdict
“couteau à lame rétractable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couteau automatique dont la lame ne se replie pas mais rentre dans le manche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couteau-a-lame-retractab · couteau à lame rétractable · French
couteau à lame rétractable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 26 letters
- VOW-12 12 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 | couteau à lame rétractable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.to a lam ʁe.tʁak.tabl\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couteau à lame rétractable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couteau à lame rétractable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.to a lam ʁe.tʁak.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
couteau à lame rétractable has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is couteau à lame rétractable, spelled C-O-U-T-E-A-U- -À- -L-A-M-E- -R-É-T-R-A-C-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Couteau automatique dont la lame ne se replie pas mais rentre dans le manche.
- 2Cutter dont la lame peut rentrer à l’intérieur du manche quand on ne l’utilise pas.
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.