retiraient
\ʁə.ti.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“retiraient” is uncommon French (frequency #76,087 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,087
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retiraient · retiraient · French
retiraient · rank #76,087 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,087
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retouchés
Nearest frequency peer: retouchés (+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 « retiraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- remercierez
remercierez
23,920 corpus weight
- renonçons
renonçons
23,918 corpus weight
- Renou
Renou
23,917 corpus weight
- retiraient
retiraient
23,914 corpus weight
- retouchés
retouchés
23,913 corpus weight
- revalorisé
revalorisé
23,912 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retiraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retiraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ti.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retiraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retiraient is uncommon French at frequency #76,087 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ti.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retirer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for retiraient, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is retiraient, spelled R-E-T-I-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retirer.
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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