rentrais
\ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ\
The verdict
“rentrais” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,516
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rentrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rentrais · rentrais · French
rentrais · rank #29,516 · 12 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,516
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renié
Nearest frequency peer: renié (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rentrais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- recueillie
recueillie
70,489 corpus weight
- remplaçante
remplaçante
70,488 corpus weight
- renié
renié
70,486 corpus weight
- rentrais
rentrais
70,485 corpus weight
- republic
republic
70,484 corpus weight
- ressemblez
ressemblez
70,482 corpus weight
What this shows « rentrais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rentrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rentrais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around rentrais (IPA \ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,516 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for rentrais, with forms such as "erntrais", "renntrais", and "renrtais". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "retrait", "rentrés", "restais", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rentrais, spelled R-E-N-T-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rentrer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rentrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rentrais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le soir, dédaignant les taxis, je rentrais à bord presque toujours en courant pour me maintenir en bonne condition physique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erntrais
- renntrais
- renrtais
- rentaris
- rentraiss
- rentrasi
- rentrias
- rentrrais
- renttrais
- retnrais
- rnetrais
- rrentrais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rentrais - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).