retraiter
\ʁə.tʁe.te\
The verdict
“retraiter” is uncommon French (frequency #73,506 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,506
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre à la retraite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retraiter · retraiter · French
retraiter · rank #73,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,506
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH resserrées
Nearest frequency peer: resserrées (-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 « retraiter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rentrèrent
rentrèrent
26,499 corpus weight
- repliant
repliant
26,498 corpus weight
- resserrées
resserrées
26,496 corpus weight
- retraiter
retraiter
26,495 corpus weight
- Revol
Revol
26,494 corpus weight
- Riester
Riester
26,493 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retraiter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retraiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁe.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retraiter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retraiter is uncommon French at frequency #73,506 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tʁe.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for retraiter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 retraiter, spelled R-E-T-R-A-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre à la retraite.
- 2Faire retraite ; battre en retraite.
- 3Traiter (des déchets) pour les réutiliser ou pour les rendre moins dangereux.
- 4Traiter à nouveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retraiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Devant l'insuccès de ses efforts au sud du ravin de Thélonne, l'infanterie adverse retraite vers le Sud-Ouest ; […].
Calotté par-devant, botté par-derrière, Maloret retraite avec ses compagnons.
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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