prendre sa retraite

/\pʁɑ̃.dʁə sa ʁə.tʁɛt\/ verb

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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prendre sa retraite is aFrenchverb. It means: Arrêter son activité salariée, généralement entre 60 et 65 ans. Pronounced \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sa ʁə.tʁɛt\.

Key facts for prendre sa retraite
PropertyValue
Headwordprendre sa retraite
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɑ̃.dʁə sa ʁə.tʁɛt\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prendre sa retraite is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prendre sa retraite is 19 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sa ʁə.tʁɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for prendre sa 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 prendre sa retraite, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -S-A- -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

  1. 1
    Arrêter son activité salariée, généralement entre 60 et 65 ans.
  2. 2
    Arrêter définitivement une activité.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prendre sa retraite"?
"prendre sa retraite" is spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -S-A- -R-E-T-R-A-I-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sa ʁə.tʁɛt\.
What does "prendre sa retraite" mean?
As a verb, "prendre sa retraite" means: Arrêter son activité salariée, généralement entre 60 et 65 ans.
How do you pronounce "prendre sa retraite"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prendre sa retraite" is \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sa ʁə.tʁɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.