retenue
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,496
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
retenue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de retenir. Pronounced \ʁə.tə.ny\. It ranks #5,496 in French word frequency. Often confused with revenu and rétine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retenue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.tə.ny\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for retenue is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.tə.ny\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,496 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for retenue, with forms such as "ertenue", "reetnue", and "reteneu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "revenu", "rétine", "revenus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is retenue, spelled R-E-T-E-N-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de retenir.
- 2Ce qu’on retient, ce qui est retenu, prélèvement sur une somme, un montant à payer.
- 3Chiffre, nombre que l’on retient.
- 4Privation de sortie, infligée à un écolier comme punition de quelque faute.
- 5Ce qui retient de l’eau, réservoir, digue, bassin, etc.
- 6Espace entre deux écluses où l’eau est retenue.
- 7Action de se retenir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ertenue,reetnue,reteneu,retennue,reteune,retneue,rettenue,rretenue,rteenue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "retenue"
Frequency rank: #5,496 in French
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