rétribuer
\ʁe.tʁi.bɥe\
The verdict
“rétribuer” is uncommon French (frequency #84,281 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,281
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner à quelqu’un le salaire, la rémunération qu’il mérite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retribuer · rétribuer · French
rétribuer · rank #84,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,281
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réussirais
Nearest frequency peer: réussirais (+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 « rétribuer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- répugnent
répugnent
15,723 corpus weight
- résistons
résistons
15,722 corpus weight
- rétribuer
rétribuer
15,720 corpus weight
- réussirais
réussirais
15,719 corpus weight
- Sabran
Sabran
15,718 corpus weight
- Sadek
Sadek
15,717 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétribuer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétribuer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁi.bɥe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétribuer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétribuer is uncommon French at frequency #84,281 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.tʁi.bɥe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for rétribuer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rétribuer, spelled R-É-T-R-I-B-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner à quelqu’un le salaire, la rémunération qu’il mérite.
- 2Payer un travail.
- 3Récompenser ou punir quelqu'un selon la valeur de ses actes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rétribuer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le trabendo mafieux ne peut pas fonctionner sans la complicité active et grassement rétribuée de certains responsables.
[…], ces infortunés, depuis les temps les plus anciens, se sont évertués à épierrer ces immensités du Causse, ces plateaux calcaires que leur industrie mal rétribuée a compartimenté de murets innombrables d’un gris bleuâtre.
This word in other languages
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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