retards
\ʁə.taʁ\
The verdict
“retards” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,655. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,655
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de retard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retards · retards · French
retards · rank #11,655 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,655
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restons
Nearest frequency peer: restons (-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 « retards »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- recteur
recteur
88,349 corpus weight
- restons
restons
88,347 corpus weight
- retards
retards
88,346 corpus weight
- Roms
Roms
88,345 corpus weight
- round
round
88,344 corpus weight
- réservation
réservation
88,343 corpus weight
What this shows « retards » 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 | retards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retards »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around retards (IPA \ʁə.taʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,655 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de retard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for retards, with forms such as "ertards", "reatrds", and "retadrs". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "retirés", "regard", "retard", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is retards, spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de retard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retards appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le traditionnel chassé-croisé des juilletistes et aoûtiens s’est traduit, samedi, par d’énormes bouchons sur les autoroutes, mais moindres que l’an dernier, tandis que la journée a surtout été marquée par quelques retards pour les TGV Méditerranée à cause d’un incendie près de la voie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertards
- reatrds
- retadrs
- retardds
- retardss
- retarrds
- retarsd
- retrads
- rettards
- rretards
- rteards
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retards - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).