rétractable
\ʁet.ʁak.tabl\
The verdict
“rétractable” is uncommon French (frequency #51,728 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,728
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que l’on peut rétracter, retirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retractable · rétractable · French
rétractable · rank #51,728 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,728
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH résulta
Nearest frequency peer: résulta (-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 « rétractable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- répétera
répétera
48,276 corpus weight
- résonnance
résonnance
48,275 corpus weight
- résulta
résulta
48,274 corpus weight
- rétractable
rétractable
48,273 corpus weight
- rôdeur
rôdeur
48,272 corpus weight
- saisisse
saisisse
48,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétractable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétractable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁet.ʁak.tabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétractable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétractable is uncommon French at frequency #51,728 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁet.ʁak.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Que l’on peut rétracter, retirer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rétractable, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rétractable, spelled R-É-T-R-A-C-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que l’on peut rétracter, retirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rétractable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cordon rétractable, une mine rétractable.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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