regrettée
\ʁə.ɡʁɛ.te\
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
- recoupements
recoupements
40,422 corpus weight
- redoutaient
redoutaient
40,420 corpus weight
- regrettée
regrettée
40,418 corpus weight
- Reinhart
Reinhart
40,416 corpus weight
- rejetez
rejetez
40,415 corpus weight
- reléguées
reléguées
40,414 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « regrettée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regrettée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.ɡʁɛ.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « regrettée » en français
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
- 1Féminin 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.
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