rétrécissent
\ʁe.tʁe.sis\
The verdict
“rétrécissent” is uncommon French (frequency #77,007 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,007
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de rétrécir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrecissent · rétrécissent · French
rétrécissent · rank #77,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,007
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH répondras
Nearest frequency peer: répondras (-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 « rétrécissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réflexologie
réflexologie
22,997 corpus weight
- rémunèrent
rémunèrent
22,996 corpus weight
- répondras
répondras
22,995 corpus weight
- rétrécissent
rétrécissent
22,994 corpus weight
- réveillées
réveillées
22,993 corpus weight
- réécrite
réécrite
22,992 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétrécissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétrécissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁe.sis\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #77,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétrécissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétrécissent is uncommon French at frequency #77,007 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.tʁe.sis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rétrécissent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rétrécissent, spelled R-É-T-R-É-C-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de rétrécir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de rétrécir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif 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).