retombait
\ʁə.tɔ̃.bɛ\
The verdict
“retombait” is uncommon French (frequency #91,105 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,105
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retombait · retombait · French
retombait · rank #91,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,105
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressorties
Nearest frequency peer: ressorties (-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 « retombait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reso
reso
8,899 corpus weight
- respawn
respawn
8,898 corpus weight
- ressorties
ressorties
8,897 corpus weight
- retombait
retombait
8,896 corpus weight
- reu
reu
8,895 corpus weight
- reversent
reversent
8,893 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retombait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retombait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tɔ̃.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retombait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retombait is uncommon French at frequency #91,105 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tɔ̃.bɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retomber.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for retombait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is retombait, spelled R-E-T-O-M-B-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retomber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retombait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout allait bien tant que les fumées du vin échauffaient le cerveau du malade ; mais dès qu’il avait complètement recouvré, ou plutôt reperdu sa raison, il retombait dans sa manie.
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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