réticentes
\ʁe.ti.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“réticentes” is uncommon French (frequency #81,535 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,535
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de réticent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réticentes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.ti.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “réticentes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
réticentes is uncommon French at frequency #81,535 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁe.ti.sɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de réticent.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for réticentes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 réticentes, spelled R-É-T-I-C-E-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de réticent.
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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Using “réticentes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-É-T-I-C-E-N-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.