retenus
\ʁət.ny\
The verdict
“retenus” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,122. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,122
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel du participe passé du verbe retenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retenus · retenus · French
retenus · rank #11,122 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,122
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH requiert
Nearest frequency peer: requiert (-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 « retenus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- renouvelé
renouvelé
88,882 corpus weight
- reprends
reprends
88,881 corpus weight
- requiert
requiert
88,880 corpus weight
- retenus
retenus
88,879 corpus weight
- ring
ring
88,878 corpus weight
- robinson
robinson
88,877 corpus weight
What this shows « retenus » 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 | retenus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁət.ny\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retenus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around retenus (IPA \ʁət.ny\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,122 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel du participe passé du verbe retenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for retenus, with forms such as "ertenus", "reetnus", and "retennus". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "revenu", "revenus", "revenue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is retenus, spelled R-E-T-E-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel du participe passé du verbe retenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retenus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car tout peut être anthologisé, les productions de la parole, au premier chef, la musique, mais aussi le monde, considéré comme un grand livre, dont les pages sont tous les éléments du réel : Dámaso Alonso intitule Antología de nuestro monstruoso mundo (Cátedra, 1992) une sélection anthologique de ses poèmes, impliquant ainsi inextricablement les mots et…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertenus
- reetnus
- retennus
- retensu
- retenuss
- reteuns
- retneus
- rettenus
- rretenus
- rteenus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retenus - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "retenus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).