retrait
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,501
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
retrait is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de retirer. Pronounced \ʁə.tʁɛ\. It ranks #3,501 in French word frequency. Often confused with rêvait and retraite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for retrait is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.tʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,501 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for retrait, with forms such as "ertrait", "rertait", and "retarit". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rêvait", "retraite", "retraits", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is retrait, spelled R-E-T-R-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de retirer.
- 2Opération bancaire dans laquelle le déposant retire une somme d’argent de son compte.
- 3Action de retirer un produit de la vente, à cause d’un défaut technique ou d’un risque sanitaire. Dans les cas les plus graves, le retrait est associé à un rappel de produit.
- 4Action en justice, par laquelle on retire un bien qui avait été vendu.
- 5Action, de l’état de ce qui se retire, de ce qui revient en arrière.
- 6Diminution de volume du mortier, de la terre, etc., lorsqu’ils sont secs, des métaux lorsqu’ils sont refroidis et des tissus lorsqu’ils sont lavés.
- 7Pratique contraceptive qui consiste pour l’homme de retirer son pénis du vagin de la femme, juste avant l’éjaculation.
- 8action consistant à éliminer du jeu un joueur de l’équipe en offensive.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ertrait,rertait,retarit,retraitt,retrati,retriat,retrrait,rettrait,rretrait,rterait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for retrait
Misspelling Variants of "retrait"
Frequency rank: #3,501 in French
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