retina
\ˈɹɛt.ɪ.nə\
The verdict
“retina” is uncommon French (frequency #62,591 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,591
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rétine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retina · retina · French
retina · rank #62,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,591
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revendiquaient
Nearest frequency peer: revendiquaient (+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 « retina »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- resplendiss…
resplendissant
37,413 corpus weight
- restreignent
restreignent
37,412 corpus weight
- retina
retina
37,410 corpus weight
- revendiquai…
revendiquaient
37,409 corpus weight
- rigolotes
rigolotes
37,408 corpus weight
- risquera
risquera
37,407 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹɛt.ɪ.nə\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retina » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retina is uncommon French at frequency #62,591 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹɛt.ɪ.nə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rétine.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for retina, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 retina, spelled R-E-T-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Rétine.
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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