retenez
\ʁə.tə.ne\
The verdict
“retenez” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,139. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,139
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de retenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retenez · retenez · French
retenez · rank #19,139 · 10 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,139
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Ressentiment
Nearest frequency peer: Ressentiment (-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 « retenez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- représentat…
représentatifs
80,865 corpus weight
- ressentie
ressentie
80,864 corpus weight
- Ressentiment
Ressentiment
80,863 corpus weight
- retenez
retenez
80,862 corpus weight
- Rhodes
Rhodes
80,861 corpus weight
- rigidité
rigidité
80,860 corpus weight
What this shows « retenez » 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 | retenez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tə.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retenez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around retenez (IPA \ʁə.tə.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,139 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for retenez, with forms such as "ertenez", "reetnez", and "reteenz". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "retenu", "rétine", "retenir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is retenez, spelled R-E-T-E-N-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de retenir.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de retenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retenez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le compérage, retenez cet axiome, est la vraie Sainte-Alliance à Paris.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertenez
- reetnez
- reteenz
- retenezz
- retennez
- retenze
- retneez
- rettenez
- rretenez
- rteenez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retenez - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).