retirant
\ʁə.ti.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“retirant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,148. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,148
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de retirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retirant · retirant · French
retirant · rank #21,148 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,148
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restaurateur
Nearest frequency peer: restaurateur (-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 « retirant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- replier
replier
78,856 corpus weight
- respectez
respectez
78,855 corpus weight
- restaurateur
restaurateur
78,854 corpus weight
- retirant
retirant
78,853 corpus weight
- retrouvant
retrouvant
78,852 corpus weight
- retrouveront
retrouveront
78,851 corpus weight
What this shows « retirant » 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 | retirant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ti.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retirant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around retirant (IPA \ʁə.ti.ʁɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,148 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de retirer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for retirant, with forms such as "ertirant", "reitrant", and "retiarnt". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "retrait", "retirent", "retira", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is retirant, spelled R-E-T-I-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de retirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retirant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Elles feront un procès-verbal, » ajoute Bossuet, en regardant, comme pour les pressentir, la mère Agnès et la sœur Sainte-Thérèse ? Péréfixe rappelant, à ce propos, les cris, les pleurs, les lamentations qu’on avait vus, à Port-Royal, le 26 août de l’année précédente, « Il faut les excuser, monseigneur (observa la mère Agnès), ce sont de pauvres filles…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertirant
- reitrant
- retiarnt
- retirannt
- retirantt
- retiratn
- retirnat
- retirrant
- retriant
- rettirant
- rretirant
- rteirant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retirant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).