rétrécissant
\ʁe.tʁe.si.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“rétrécissant” is uncommon French (frequency #98,461 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,461
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de rétrécir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrecissant · rétrécissant · French
rétrécissant · rank #98,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,461
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rétrogradée
Nearest frequency peer: rétrogradée (-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 « rétrécissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- régularités
régularités
1,543 corpus weight
- régénérée
régénérée
1,542 corpus weight
- rétrogradée
rétrogradée
1,541 corpus weight
- rétrécissant
rétrécissant
1,540 corpus weight
- réveillerais
réveillerais
1,539 corpus weight
- saponificat…
saponification
1,537 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétrécissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétrécissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁe.si.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #98,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétrécissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétrécissant is uncommon French at frequency #98,461 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.tʁe.si.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de rétrécir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rétrécissant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rétrécissant, spelled R-É-T-R-É-C-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de rétrécir.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).