retiendrai
\ʁə.tjɛ̃.dʁe\
The verdict
“retiendrai” is uncommon French (frequency #59,593 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,593
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du futur de retenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retiendrai · retiendrai · French
retiendrai · rank #59,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,593
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revendiquées
Nearest frequency peer: revendiquées (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « retiendrai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repérable
repérable
40,411 corpus weight
- repêchés
repêchés
40,410 corpus weight
- retiendrai
retiendrai
40,408 corpus weight
- revendiquées
revendiquées
40,407 corpus weight
- revirements
revirements
40,406 corpus weight
- rhizome
rhizome
40,405 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retiendrai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retiendrai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tjɛ̃.dʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retiendrai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retiendrai is uncommon French at frequency #59,593 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tjɛ̃.dʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du futur de retenir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for retiendrai, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 retiendrai, spelled R-E-T-I-E-N-D-R-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du futur de retenir.
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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