rentrant
\ʁɑ̃.tʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“rentrant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,146. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,146
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un angle plus grand qu’un angle plat (pour une fortification, un angle dont la pointe est dirigée vers l’intérieur du château quand on est à l’intérieur), par opposition aux angles saillants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rentrant · rentrant · French
rentrant · rank #8,146 · 13 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,146
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renouvelables
Nearest frequency peer: renouvelables (-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 « rentrant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- relevant
relevant
91,858 corpus weight
- renard
renard
91,857 corpus weight
- renouvelabl…
renouvelables
91,856 corpus weight
- rentrant
rentrant
91,855 corpus weight
- respiration
respiration
91,854 corpus weight
- rideau
rideau
91,853 corpus weight
What this shows « rentrant » 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 | rentrant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.tʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rentrant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around rentrant (IPA \ʁɑ̃.tʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,146 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualifie un angle plus grand qu’un angle plat (pour une fortification, un angle dont la pointe est dirigée vers l’intérieur du château quand on est à l’intérieur), par opposition aux angles saillants.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for rentrant, with forms such as "erntrant", "renntrant", and "renrtant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "retrait", "restant", "rentrent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 rentrant, spelled R-E-N-T-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un angle plus grand qu’un angle plat (pour une fortification, un angle dont la pointe est dirigée vers l’intérieur du château quand on est à l’intérieur), par opposition aux angles saillants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rentrant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le plafond, de bois de cèdre, offre les combinaisons mathématiques si familières aux architectes arabes : tous les morceaux sont ajustés de façon à ce que leurs angles sortants ou rentrants forment une variété infinie de dessins.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erntrant
- renntrant
- renrtant
- rentarnt
- rentrannt
- rentrantt
- rentratn
- rentrnat
- rentrrant
- renttrant
- retnrant
- rnetrant
- rrentrant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rentrant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).