retirons
\ʁə.ti.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“retirons” is uncommon French (frequency #63,303 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,303
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de retiron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retirons · retirons · French
retirons · rank #63,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,303
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reposante
Nearest frequency peer: reposante (-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 « retirons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renfermée
renfermée
36,701 corpus weight
- renvoyons
renvoyons
36,700 corpus weight
- reposante
reposante
36,699 corpus weight
- retirons
retirons
36,698 corpus weight
- revendant
revendant
36,696 corpus weight
- Rialto
Rialto
36,695 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retirons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retirons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ti.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retirons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retirons is uncommon French at frequency #63,303 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.ti.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de retiron.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for retirons, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is retirons, spelled R-E-T-I-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de retiron.
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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