retenons
\ʁə.tə.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“retenons” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,327. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,327
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de retenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retenons · retenons · French
retenons · rank #49,327 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,327
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repartait
Nearest frequency peer: repartait (-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 « retenons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remportait
remportait
50,677 corpus weight
- renouvelant
renouvelant
50,676 corpus weight
- repartait
repartait
50,675 corpus weight
- retenons
retenons
50,674 corpus weight
- retravaillé
retravaillé
50,673 corpus weight
- revêtue
revêtue
50,671 corpus weight
What this shows « retenons » 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 | retenons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tə.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retenons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around retenons (IPA \ʁə.tə.nɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,327 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for retenons, with forms such as "ertenons", "reetnons", and "retennons". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "retenus", "revenons", "retenues", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is retenons, spelled R-E-T-E-N-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de retenir.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de retenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retenons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Passons sur le menu, retenons que pour les vins les convives eurent droit à un château-yquem (1975) et à un château-cheval-blanc (1995), deux propriétés de Bernard Arnault.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertenons
- reetnons
- retennons
- retennos
- retenonns
- retenonss
- retenosn
- reteonns
- retneons
- rettenons
- rretenons
- rteenons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retenons - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "retenons"?
What does "retenons" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "retenons"?
How do you pronounce "retenons"?
What language does "retenons" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retenons", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).