retient
\ʁə.tjɛ̃\
The verdict
“retient” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,298. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,298
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de retenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retient · retient · French
retient · rank #8,298 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,298
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renforce
Nearest frequency peer: renforce (-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 « retient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rejeter
rejeter
91,706 corpus weight
- rejette
rejette
91,705 corpus weight
- renforce
renforce
91,704 corpus weight
- retient
retient
91,703 corpus weight
- Rick
Rick
91,702 corpus weight
- risquer
risquer
91,701 corpus weight
What this shows « retient » 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 | retient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around retient (IPA \ʁə.tjɛ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,298 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de retenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for retient, with forms such as "ertient", "reitent", and "reteint". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rient", "rêvent", "rétine", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is retient, spelled R-E-T-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de retenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ainsi que l’on nomme vulgairement « peintre réaliste » celui qui, par surabondance de matière, favorise l’échappement de l'idée, qui boursoufle ou décharpente la réalité sous la poussée et au bénéfice de quelque idée et ne retient des objets que ce qui en peut fournir l’expression la plus suggestive.
On étronne en périphérie… quand on a de l’éducation… on se retient ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertient
- reitent
- reteint
- retiennt
- retientt
- retietn
- retinet
- rettient
- rretient
- rteient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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).