retreat
The verdict
“retreat” is uncommon French (frequency #90,129 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,129
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Repli, retraite, recul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retreat · retreat · French
retreat · rank #90,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,129
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restaus
Nearest frequency peer: restaus (-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 « retreat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repaître
repaître
9,876 corpus weight
- reps
reps
9,875 corpus weight
- restaus
restaus
9,873 corpus weight
- retreat
retreat
9,872 corpus weight
- revérifier
revérifier
9,871 corpus weight
- rhymes
rhymes
9,869 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retreat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retreat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retreat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retreat is uncommon French at frequency #90,129 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for retreat, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 retreat, spelled R-E-T-R-E-A-T.
Definition
- 1Repli, retraite, recul.
- 2Refuge, abri, retraite.
- 3Retraite pour se recueillir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retreat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I love come to this retreat in the country.
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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