rentrant

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The French entry for rentrant is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ̃.tʁɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,146 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.