retravailler
\ʁə.tʁa.va.je\
The verdict
“retravailler” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,693. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,693
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Reprendre le travail de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retravailler · retravailler · French
retravailler · rank #31,693 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #31,693
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retrouverons
Nearest frequency peer: retrouverons (+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 « retravailler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reproduisant
reproduisant
68,311 corpus weight
- ressemblanc…
ressemblances
68,310 corpus weight
- retravailler
retravailler
68,308 corpus weight
- retrouverons
retrouverons
68,307 corpus weight
- Retz
Retz
68,306 corpus weight
- Reynaud
Reynaud
68,305 corpus weight
What this shows « retravailler » 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 | retravailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁa.va.je\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #31,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retravailler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around retravailler (IPA \ʁə.tʁa.va.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,693 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for retravailler, with forms such as "ertravailler", "rertavailler", and "retarvailler". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "retravaillé", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is retravailler, spelled R-E-T-R-A-V-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Reprendre le travail de quelque chose.
- 2Améliorer ; remanier.
- 3Reprendre le travail, au sens absolu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retravailler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lendemain, dès sept heures, Fougères à son chevalet, retravaillait le tableau condamné ; il en réchauffait la couleur, il y faisait les corrections indiquées par Schinner, il replâtrait ses figures.
On parle alors de faciès sapropélique, terme provenant du grec sapros voulant dire « pourriture ». Même si la biomasse initiale a été fortement retravaillée par les bactéries, cette matière organique présente un bon potentiel pétrolier.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertravailler
- rertavailler
- retarvailler
- retraaviller
- retravailelr
- retravailer
- retravaillerr
- retravaillre
- retravaliler
- retravialler
- retravvailler
- retrravailler
- retrvaailler
- rettravailler
- rretravailler
- rteravailler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retravailler - 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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