retranchent
\ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“retranchent” is uncommon French (frequency #89,087 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,087
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de retrancher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retranchent · retranchent · French
retranchent · rank #89,087 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,087
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retiendrais
Nearest frequency peer: retiendrais (-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 « retranchent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- requière
requière
10,918 corpus weight
- ressuscitera
ressuscitera
10,916 corpus weight
- retiendrais
retiendrais
10,915 corpus weight
- retranchent
retranchent
10,914 corpus weight
- retranscrits
retranscrits
10,913 corpus weight
- revenante
revenante
10,911 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retranchent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retranchent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #89,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retranchent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retranchent is uncommon French at frequency #89,087 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
retranchent has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is retranchent, spelled R-E-T-R-A-N-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de retrancher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de retrancher.
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).