retransmettre
\ʁə.tʁɑ̃s.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“retransmettre” is uncommon French (frequency #58,900 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,900
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Transmettre dans le cas d’une émission radiophonique ou télévisuelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retransmettre · retransmettre · French
retransmettre · rank #58,900 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,900
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 507,453
- PHOTO-FINISH Retailleau
Nearest frequency peer: Retailleau (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “retransmettre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- respecterai
respecterai
41,104 corpus weight
- restituées
restituées
41,103 corpus weight
- Retailleau
Retailleau
41,102 corpus weight
- retransmett…
retransmettre
41,101 corpus weight
- revista
revista
41,100 corpus weight
- revoient
revoient
41,099 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “retransmettre” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retransmettre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁɑ̃s.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #58,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “retransmettre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
retransmettre is uncommon French at frequency #58,900 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tʁɑ̃s.mɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
retransmettre has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is retransmettre, spelled R-E-T-R-A-N-S-M-E-T-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Transmettre dans le cas d’une émission radiophonique ou télévisuelle.
- 2Transmettre à nouveau.
This word in other languages
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 "retransmettre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.