rétinien
\ʁe.ti.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“rétinien” is uncommon French (frequency #88,063 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,063
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la rétine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retinien · rétinien · French
rétinien · rank #88,063 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,063
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH résumera
Nearest frequency peer: résumera (-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 « rétinien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réimpressio…
réimpressions
11,943 corpus weight
- résignent
résignent
11,942 corpus weight
- résumera
résumera
11,939 corpus weight
- rétinien
rétinien
11,938 corpus weight
- sabotent
sabotent
11,934 corpus weight
- saccagées
saccagées
11,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétinien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétinien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.ti.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétinien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétinien is uncommon French at frequency #88,063 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁe.ti.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la rétine.".
rétinien doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rétinien, spelled R-É-T-I-N-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la rétine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rétinien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur des rats carencés et héméralopes, Yozo Sujita a constaté l’altération lipoïdique de l’épithélium pigmentaire rétinien, caractérisée entre autres lésions par l'amas d’esters de cholestérol, les cellules atteintes de stéatose apparaissant remplies de substances lipidiques.
Feinsold et al. ont démontré, pour la première fois en 1975, qu'au cours de la SEP il était possible de détecter en lumière anérythre une dégénérescence axonale de la couche des fibres nerveuses rétiniennes chez des patients […].
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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