rétraction
\ʁet.ʁak.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“rétraction” is uncommon French (frequency #60,358 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,358
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de se rétracter, en parlant d'une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retraction · rétraction · French
rétraction · rank #60,358 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,358
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH résistait
Nearest frequency peer: résistait (-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 « rétraction »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réjouie
réjouie
39,646 corpus weight
- réjouissance
réjouissance
39,645 corpus weight
- résistait
résistait
39,644 corpus weight
- rétraction
rétraction
39,643 corpus weight
- réussirait
réussirait
39,642 corpus weight
- sablière
sablière
39,640 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétraction » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétraction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁet.ʁak.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétraction » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétraction is uncommon French at frequency #60,358 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁet.ʁak.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
rétraction has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rétraction, spelled R-É-T-R-A-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de se rétracter, en parlant d'une chose.
- 2Raccourcissement, contraction d’une partie du corps.
- 3Retrait, repli sur soi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rétraction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Singapour, en 1967, au moment même où la chute de la fécondité atteint sa vitesse maximale, se déclenche une épidemie de Koro, manifestation hystérique spécifiquement masculine. Les individus touchés craignent et perçoivent une rétraction de leur pénis, qui menace, disent-ils, de disparaître dans l'abdomen.
Fascinant rêve noir d'un certain Occident : après les phases d'extension, de cartographisation du monde, de dénomination et découvertes des caps et des cultures, voici la rétraction comme solution. Le retrait du monde.
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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