retranchement
Letters
13 characters
Frequency Rank
#68,617
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
retranchement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Suppression d’une partie d’un tout. Pronounced \ʁət.ʁɑ̃ʃ.mɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retranchement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁət.ʁɑ̃ʃ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #68,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for retranchement is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁət.ʁɑ̃ʃ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #68,617 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for retranchement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 retranchement, spelled R-E-T-R-A-N-C-H-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Suppression d’une partie d’un tout.
- 2Suppression d’une partie d’un tout.
- 3Suppression totale.
- 4Tout ce qu’on a retranché d’une chambre ou de toute autre pièce, soit pour lui donner une meilleure proportion, soit pour lui procurer quelque commodité.
- 5Tout ouvrage fait pour fortifier un poste ou pour en augmenter la défense.
- 6Tout dispositif de défense.
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Frequency rank: #68,617 in French
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