rétrécir
\ʁe.tʁe.siʁ\
The verdict
“rétrécir” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,481. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,481
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre plus étroit, moins large.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrecir · rétrécir · French
rétrécir · rank #40,481 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,481
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH résidants
Nearest frequency peer: résidants (-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 « rétrécir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Rungis
Rungis
59,523 corpus weight
- rédigea
rédigea
59,522 corpus weight
- résidants
résidants
59,521 corpus weight
- rétrécir
rétrécir
59,520 corpus weight
- réélue
réélue
59,519 corpus weight
- sample
sample
59,518 corpus weight
What this shows « rétrécir » 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 | rétrécir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁe.siʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rétrécir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around rétrécir (IPA \ʁe.tʁe.siʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,481 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for rétrécir, with forms such as "retrecir", "rrétrécir", and "rtérécir". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "rétrécit", "retenir", "rétréci", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rétrécir, spelled R-É-T-R-É-C-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre plus étroit, moins large.
- 2…
- 3Devenir plus étroit.
- 4Devenir plus étroit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rétrécir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vrai que la sécheuse fait rétrécir les vêtements, mais jamais autant que le frigo.
Rétrécir un chemin, une rue.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- retrecir
- rrétrécir
- rtérécir
- rértécir
- rétrcéir
- rétrrécir
- rétréccir
- rétrécirr
- rétrécri
- rétréicr
- réttrécir
- rétércir
- értrécir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rétrécir - 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 "rétrécir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).