retournent
\ʁə.tuʁn\
The verdict
“retournent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,552
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de retourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retournent · retournent · French
retournent · rank #14,552 · 15 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,552
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restées
Nearest frequency peer: restées (-2 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 « retournent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remake
remake
85,453 corpus weight
- représentai…
représentaient
85,452 corpus weight
- restées
restées
85,451 corpus weight
- retournent
retournent
85,449 corpus weight
- royales
royales
85,447 corpus weight
- régression
régression
85,446 corpus weight
What this shows « retournent » 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 | retournent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tuʁn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retournent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around retournent (IPA \ʁə.tuʁn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,552 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for retournent, with forms such as "ertournent", "reoturnent", and "retorunent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "retourner", "retournés", "retournez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 retournent, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de retourner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de retourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retournent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un mois plus tard, les amis de Ouin-Ouin retournent au cimetière et trouvent sur la tombe de sa femme : « Elle est montée au ciel en tombant dans l’escalier.
L’aide place les cartouches sur le prélat ; les démolisseurs coupent les ligatures, enlèvent le boulet ensaboté, le brossent, le posent sur le prélat, versent la poudre grenée dans un baril, celle en roche dans un autre, retournent le sachet, le nettoient et le mettent dans la caisse ; le désensaboteur reçoit les boulets de l’aide et désensabote ceux qui…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertournent
- reoturnent
- retorunent
- retounrent
- retourennt
- retournennt
- retournentt
- retournetn
- retournnent
- retournnet
- retourrnent
- rettournent
- retuornent
- rretournent
- rteournent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retournent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).