retracée
\ʁə.tʁa.se\
The verdict
“retracée” is uncommon French (frequency #81,509 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,509
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de retracer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retracee · retracée · French
retracée · rank #81,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,509
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restylage
Nearest frequency peer: restylage (-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 « retracée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- responsabil…
responsabilise
18,495 corpus weight
- ressert
ressert
18,494 corpus weight
- restylage
restylage
18,493 corpus weight
- retracée
retracée
18,492 corpus weight
- retranscrite
retranscrite
18,491 corpus weight
- retransmises
retransmises
18,490 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retracée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retracée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁa.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retracée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retracée is uncommon French at frequency #81,509 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tʁa.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de retracer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for retracée, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is retracée, spelled R-E-T-R-A-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de retracer.
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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