retraitée
\ʁə.tʁɛ.te\
The verdict
“retraitée” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,981. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,981
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne à la retraite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retraitee · retraitée · French
retraitée · rank #39,981 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,981
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH respirez
Nearest frequency peer: respirez (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « retraitée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reproduites
reproduites
60,023 corpus weight
- requérir
requérir
60,022 corpus weight
- respirez
respirez
60,021 corpus weight
- retraitée
retraitée
60,020 corpus weight
- retrouverai
retrouverai
60,019 corpus weight
- rira
rira
60,018 corpus weight
What this shows « retraitée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retraitée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁɛ.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retraitée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around retraitée (IPA \ʁə.tʁɛ.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,981 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne à la retraite.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for retraitée, with forms such as "ertraitée", "rertaitée", and "retaritée". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "retraits", "retraités", "retrait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is retraitée, spelled R-E-T-R-A-I-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Personne à la retraite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retraitée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une retraitée qu’il payait en chèque emploi service s’en occupait deux heures par semaine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertraitée
- rertaitée
- retaritée
- retraitee
- retraiteé
- retraittée
- retraiéte
- retratiée
- retriatée
- retrraitée
- rettraitée
- rretraitée
- rteraitée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retraitée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retraitée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).