retraire
\ʁə.tʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“retraire” is uncommon French (frequency #79,681 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,681
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exercer un retrait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retraire · retraire · French
retraire · rank #79,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,681
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressaisie
Nearest frequency peer: ressaisie (-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 « retraire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- replacée
replacée
20,324 corpus weight
- repêchée
repêchée
20,323 corpus weight
- ressaisie
ressaisie
20,321 corpus weight
- retraire
retraire
20,320 corpus weight
- retrousse
retrousse
20,319 corpus weight
- ricanant
ricanant
20,317 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retraire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retraire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retraire is uncommon French at frequency #79,681 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exercer un retrait.".
No misspelling variants are generated for retraire in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 retraire, spelled R-E-T-R-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Exercer un retrait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retraire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et rien je crois n'est fait, que par son ministère : Qu'un employ soit vaquant, elle le fait avoir, Sans trop solliciter à qui le peut vouloir, Un mariage fait, elle le fait défaire ; Une terre vendue, elle la fait retraire.
La loi des fabriques exige, en pareil cas, que le banc soit mis en vente, mais accorde à l’aîné des fils le droit de « retraire le banc au prix de la dernière enchère ».
Synonyms
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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