retranscrire
\ʁət.ʁɑ̃s.kʁiʁ\
The verdict
“retranscrire” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,040
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transcrire de nouveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retranscrire · retranscrire · French
retranscrire · rank #37,040 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #37,040
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retoucher
Nearest frequency peer: retoucher (-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 « retranscrire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rendrez
rendrez
62,965 corpus weight
- restreintes
restreintes
62,963 corpus weight
- retoucher
retoucher
62,962 corpus weight
- retranscrire
retranscrire
62,961 corpus weight
- retranscrit
retranscrit
62,960 corpus weight
- revisiter
revisiter
62,958 corpus weight
What this shows « retranscrire » 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 | retranscrire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁət.ʁɑ̃s.kʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #37,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retranscrire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around retranscrire (IPA \ʁət.ʁɑ̃s.kʁiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,040 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Transcrire de nouveau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for retranscrire, with forms such as "ertranscrire", "rertanscrire", and "retarnscrire". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "retranscrit", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is retranscrire, spelled R-E-T-R-A-N-S-C-R-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Transcrire de nouveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retranscrire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette page a été mal copiée, il faut la retranscrire.
Il faut retranscrire la page 38 de ton livre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertranscrire
- rertanscrire
- retarnscrire
- retrancsrire
- retrannscrire
- retransccrire
- retranscirre
- retranscrier
- retranscrirre
- retranscrrie
- retranscrrire
- retransrcire
- retransscrire
- retrasncrire
- retrnascrire
- retrranscrire
- rettranscrire
- rretranscrire
- rteranscrire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retranscrire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retranscrire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).