regrettée

\ʁə.ɡʁɛ.te\

/\ʁə.ɡʁɛ.te\/ adj

The verdict

“regrettée” is uncommon French (frequency #59,583 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,583
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de regretté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-regrettee · regrettée · French

regrettée · rank #59,583 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #59,583
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH redoutaient

Nearest frequency peer: redoutaient (-2 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « regrettée »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « regrettée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for regrettée
PropertyValue
Headwordregrettée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁə.ɡʁɛ.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#59,583
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « regrettée » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).regrettéetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « redoutaient » (#59,581), « Reinhart » (#59,585), « rejetez » (#59,586). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « regrettée » est au #59,583. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

regrettée is uncommon French at frequency #59,583 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.ɡʁɛ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de regretté.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for regrettée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is regrettée, spelled R-E-G-R-E-T-T-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de regretté.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "regrettée"?
"regrettée" is spelled R-E-G-R-E-T-T-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.ɡʁɛ.te\.
What does "regrettée" mean?
As an adjective, "regrettée" means: Féminin singulier de regretté.
How do you pronounce "regrettée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "regrettée" is \ʁə.ɡʁɛ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "regrettée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list