retournant
\ʁə.tuʁ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“retournant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,401
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de retourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retournant · retournant · French
retournant · rank #22,401 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,401
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressusciter
Nearest frequency peer: ressusciter (-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 « retournant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reporters
reporters
77,603 corpus weight
- représentat…
représentativité
77,602 corpus weight
- ressusciter
ressusciter
77,601 corpus weight
- retournant
retournant
77,600 corpus weight
- revirement
revirement
77,599 corpus weight
- rocheuses
rocheuses
77,598 corpus weight
What this shows « retournant » 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 | retournant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tuʁ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #22,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retournant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around retournant (IPA \ʁə.tuʁ.nɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,401 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de retourner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for retournant, with forms such as "ertournant", "reoturnant", and "retorunant". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "retournent", "retournons", "retourna", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is retournant, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de retourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retournant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et si l’on veut thérapeutiser le zozo, c’est en retournant calmement au texte fondateur de l’ère chrétienne pour essayer de savoir comment se dépatouiller dans ses propres filets.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertournant
- reoturnant
- retorunant
- retounrant
- retourannt
- retournannt
- retournantt
- retournatn
- retournnant
- retournnat
- retourrnant
- rettournant
- retuornant
- rretournant
- rteournant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retournant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retournant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).