retirer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,448
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
retirer is aFrenchverb. It means: Tirer à nouveau. Pronounced \ʁə.ti.ʁe\. It ranks #2,448 in French word frequency. Often confused with retirés and retirez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retirer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ti.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for retirer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.ti.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,448 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for retirer, with forms such as "ertirer", "reitrer", and "retierr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "retirés", "retirez", "retirera", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is retirer, spelled R-E-T-I-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tirer à nouveau.
- 2Ramener en arrière, ramener à soi.
- 3Tirer une personne, une chose d’un lieu où elle avait été mise, où elle était entrée.
- 4Reprendre, enlever.
- 5Faire sortir de.
- 6S’en aller ou s’éloigner d’un lieu.
- 7Quitter la profession qu’on exerçait, le genre de vie qu’on menait.
- 8Aller dans un lieu pour y établir sa retraite.
- 9Se dit des eaux qui rentrent dans leur lit après avoir monté, après avoir débordé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ertirer,reitrer,retierr,retirerr,retirre,retirrer,retrier,rettirer,rretirer,rteirer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for retirer
Misspelling Variants of "retirer"
Frequency rank: #2,448 in French
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Nearby French words
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