retranchées
\ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe\
The verdict
“retranchées” is uncommon French (frequency #85,223 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,223
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin pluriel de retrancher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retranchees · retranchées · French
retranchées · rank #85,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,223
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH resituer
Nearest frequency peer: resituer (-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 « retranchées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renversemen…
renversements
14,781 corpus weight
- représentais
représentais
14,780 corpus weight
- resituer
resituer
14,779 corpus weight
- retranchées
retranchées
14,778 corpus weight
- revendiquons
revendiquons
14,777 corpus weight
- revoyure
revoyure
14,776 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retranchées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retranchées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retranchées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retranchées is uncommon French at frequency #85,223 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel de retrancher.".
Zero misspellings are on record for retranchées in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is retranchées, spelled R-E-T-R-A-N-C-H-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin pluriel de retrancher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retranchées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nina Kolot, retraitée, explique la coopération qui s’était instaurée entre les civils et les troupes ukrainiennes retranchées à quelques mètres de leurs domiciles.
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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