retentit
\ʁə.tɑ̃.ti\
The verdict
“retentit” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,719. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,719
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de retentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retentit · retentit · French
retentit · rank #28,719 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,719
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH requièrent
Nearest frequency peer: requièrent (-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 « retentit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- regroupé
regroupé
71,286 corpus weight
- relatant
relatant
71,285 corpus weight
- renommés
renommés
71,284 corpus weight
- requièrent
requièrent
71,283 corpus weight
- retentit
retentit
71,282 corpus weight
- revendiquée
revendiquée
71,279 corpus weight
What this shows « retentit » 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 | retentit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tɑ̃.ti\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retentit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around retentit (IPA \ʁə.tɑ̃.ti\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,719 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 retentit, with forms such as "ertentit", "reetntit", and "retenitt". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "revenait", "retenir", "repenti", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is retentit, spelled R-E-T-E-N-T-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de retentir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de retentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retentit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le radio-téléphone de la voiture retentit.
Le feuillage de quelques arbustes froissés retentit dans le silence, comme le murmure d’une onde agitée ; mais quoiqu’ils prêtassent l’oreille pour saisir quelques nouveaux sons, la terre resta silencieuse et garda le secret des pas de l’inconnue, si toutefois elle avait marché.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertentit
- reetntit
- retenitt
- retenntit
- retentitt
- retentti
- retenttit
- retetnit
- retnetit
- rettentit
- rretentit
- rteentit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retentit - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retentit", 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).