retente
\ʁə.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“retente” is uncommon French (frequency #52,955 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,955
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de retenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retente · retente · French
retente · rank #52,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,955
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retardent
Nearest frequency peer: retardent (-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 « retente »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ressemblé
ressemblé
47,049 corpus weight
- ressortant
ressortant
47,048 corpus weight
- retardent
retardent
47,047 corpus weight
- retente
retente
47,046 corpus weight
- retournerait
retournerait
47,045 corpus weight
- retweets
retweets
47,044 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retente » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retente » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retente is uncommon French at frequency #52,955 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for retente, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 retente, spelled R-E-T-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de retenter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de retenter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de retenter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de retenter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de retenter.
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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