maison de retraite
\mɛ.zɔ̃ də ʁə.tʁɛt\
The verdict
“maison de retraite” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Établissement public ou privé, où l’on reçoit les personnes âgées ou retraités.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maison de retraite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.zɔ̃ də ʁə.tʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maison de retraite” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maison de retraite is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.zɔ̃ də ʁə.tʁɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Établissement public ou privé, où l’on reçoit les personnes âgées ou retraités.".
No misspelling variants are generated for maison de retraite in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is maison de retraite, spelled M-A-I-S-O-N- -D-E- -R-E-T-R-A-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Établissement public ou privé, où l’on reçoit les personnes âgées ou retraités.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-S-O-N- -D-E- -R-E-T-R-A-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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