retraite
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,343
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
retraite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de se retirer. Pronounced \ʁə.tʁɛt\. It ranks #1,343 in French word frequency. Often confused with retraits and retraités.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retraite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for retraite is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.tʁɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,343 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for retraite, with forms such as "ertraite", "rertaite", and "retarite". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "retraits", "retraités", "retraitée", 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 retraite, spelled R-E-T-R-A-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de se retirer.
- 2Marche que fait une armée pour s’éloigner de l’ennemi après un combat désavantageux, ou pour abandonner un territoire où elle ne peut plus se maintenir.
- 3Obligation où sont les soldats de se retirer à une certaine heure et le signal qu’on leur donne en conséquence.
- 4Action de se retirer du monde, des affaires.
- 5Période de la vie d’un salarié, après s’être retiré de la vie active, tout en continuant de toucher régulièrement une somme d’argent à titre de pension.
- 6Le système de retraite, son financement.
- 7Cette pension perçue ; son montant.
- 8État d’une personne retirée des affaires, éloignée du tumulte de la société.
- 9Éloignement où l’on se tient du commerce du monde pendant quelques jours, pour mieux se recueillir, et des exercices de piété que l’on pratique durant ce temps.
- 10Lieu même où l’on se retire.
- 11Lieu de refuge.
- 12Diminution progressive d’épaisseur qu’on donne à un mur en partant du pied; état de ce qui est en arrière d’un alignement.
- 13Retrait, diminution de volume.
- 14Blessure causée par un clou dans le tissu vivant du pied d’un cheval.
- 15Ellipse de retraite aux flambeaux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ertraite,rertaite,retarite,retraiet,retraitte,retratie,retriate,retrraite,rettraite,rretraite,rteraite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for retraite
Misspelling Variants of "retraite"
Frequency rank: #1,343 in French
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