retiens bien
The verdict
“retiens bien” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propension morale à ne pas abuser ou profiter indûment d'une situation, vergogne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retiens-bien · retiens bien · French
retiens bien · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retiens bien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
retiens bien is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Propension morale à ne pas abuser ou profiter indûment d'une situation, vergogne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for retiens bien, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 retiens bien, spelled R-E-T-I-E-N-S- -B-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Propension morale à ne pas abuser ou profiter indûment d'une situation, vergogne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retiens bien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Montre un peu de r'tiens ben, sacrement. T'es plus un enfant !
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.