retentissante
\ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“retentissante” is uncommon French (frequency #53,600 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,600
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de retentissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retentissante · retentissante · French
retentissante · rank #53,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,600
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reportant
Nearest frequency peer: reportant (-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 « retentissante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rendes
rendes
46,405 corpus weight
- Renouard
Renouard
46,404 corpus weight
- reportant
reportant
46,402 corpus weight
- retentissan…
retentissante
46,401 corpus weight
- rhumes
rhumes
46,399 corpus weight
- rhénane
rhénane
46,398 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retentissante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retentissante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #53,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retentissante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retentissante is uncommon French at frequency #53,600 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de retentissant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for retentissante, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is retentissante, spelled R-E-T-E-N-T-I-S-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de retentissant.
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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