retrancher
\ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe\
The verdict
“retrancher” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,135. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,135
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Séparer une partie du tout, ôter quelque chose d’un tout.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrancher · retrancher · French
retrancher · rank #36,135 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,135
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reversés
Nearest frequency peer: reversés (+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 « retrancher »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- respirait
respirait
63,869 corpus weight
- restauratio…
restaurations
63,868 corpus weight
- retrancher
retrancher
63,866 corpus weight
- reversés
reversés
63,865 corpus weight
- revivez
revivez
63,864 corpus weight
- RIB
RIB
63,863 corpus weight
What this shows « retrancher » 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 | retrancher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #36,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retrancher »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around retrancher (IPA \ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,135 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for retrancher, with forms such as "ertrancher", "rertancher", and "retarncher". 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, "retranchés", "retracer", "retranché", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is retrancher, spelled R-E-T-R-A-N-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Séparer une partie du tout, ôter quelque chose d’un tout.
- 2Faire une soustraction.
- 3Ôter entièrement ; supprimer.
- 4Munir une place, une troupe de fossés, de tranchées et autres travaux, pour arrêter les attaques de l’ennemi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retrancher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, qu'est-ce que la vie, si vous en retranchez les plaisirs? Mérite-t-elle le nom de vie?
Retrancher un nombre d’un autre
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertrancher
- rertancher
- retarncher
- retracnher
- retranccher
- retrancehr
- retrancherr
- retranchher
- retranchre
- retranhcer
- retranncher
- retrnacher
- retrrancher
- rettrancher
- rretrancher
- rterancher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retrancher - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).