retenais
\ʁə.tə.nɛ\
The verdict
“retenais” is uncommon French (frequency #71,017 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,017
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de retenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retenais · retenais · French
retenais · rank #71,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,017
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restituent
Nearest frequency peer: restituent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « retenais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- resserrés
resserrés
28,987 corpus weight
- ressuscités
ressuscités
28,986 corpus weight
- restituent
restituent
28,985 corpus weight
- retenais
retenais
28,984 corpus weight
- reto
reto
28,983 corpus weight
- reverrez
reverrez
28,982 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retenais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retenais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retenais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retenais is uncommon French at frequency #71,017 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tə.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for retenais in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is retenais, spelled R-E-T-E-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de retenir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de retenir.
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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