rétifs
\ʁe.tif\
The verdict
“rétifs” is uncommon French (frequency #90,157 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,157
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de rétif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retifs · rétifs · French
rétifs · rank #90,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,157
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH résonna
Nearest frequency peer: résonna (-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 « rétifs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- régleront
régleront
9,848 corpus weight
- Réjane
Réjane
9,847 corpus weight
- réorganisant
réorganisant
9,846 corpus weight
- résonna
résonna
9,845 corpus weight
- rétifs
rétifs
9,844 corpus weight
- révoltèrent
révoltèrent
9,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétifs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.tif\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétifs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétifs is uncommon French at frequency #90,157 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁe.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de rétif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rétifs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rétifs, spelled R-É-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de rétif.
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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