réticent
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,135
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
réticent is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui fait preuve de réticence, qui tait volontairement ce qu’il pourrait ou devrait dire. Pronounced \ʁe.ti.sɑ̃\. Often confused with revient and retient.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réticent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʁe.ti.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for réticent is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.ti.sɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,135 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for réticent, with forms such as "reticent", "rréticent", and "rtéicent". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "revient", "retient", "retiens", 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 réticent, spelled R-É-T-I-C-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui fait preuve de réticence, qui tait volontairement ce qu’il pourrait ou devrait dire.
- 2Qui dénote l’omission volontaire de ce qui pourrait ou devrait être dit.
- 3Qui contient des omissions volontaires.
- 4Qui fait preuve de réserve et de désapprobation, qui manque de bonne volonté (être réticent à, envers, à l’égard de quelqu'un ou quelque chose ou à faire quelque chose).
- 5Qualifie un regex réticent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: reticent,rréticent,rtéicent,réitcent,rétcient,réticcent,réticennt,réticentt,réticetn,réticnet,rétiecnt,rétticent,érticent
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for réticent
Misspelling Variants of "réticent"
Frequency rank: #29,135 in French
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Nearby French words
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