retriever
\ʁe.tʁi.vœʁ\
The verdict
“retriever” is uncommon French (frequency #66,301 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,301
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des races de chiens de chasse, dressés à trouver, poursuivre et rapporter le gibier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retriever · retriever · French
retriever · rank #66,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,301
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH result
Nearest frequency peer: result (-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 « retriever »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repérables
repérables
33,703 corpus weight
- restrictifs
restrictifs
33,702 corpus weight
- result
result
33,701 corpus weight
- retriever
retriever
33,700 corpus weight
- Rha
Rha
33,699 corpus weight
- rhésus
rhésus
33,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retriever » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retriever |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁi.vœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retriever » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retriever is uncommon French at frequency #66,301 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.tʁi.vœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Une des races de chiens de chasse, dressés à trouver, poursuivre et rapporter le gibier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for retriever in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is retriever, spelled R-E-T-R-I-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Une des races de chiens de chasse, dressés à trouver, poursuivre et rapporter le gibier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retriever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque Charlotte coupa le moteur de sa voiture devant la maison Leduc, un retriever à la fourrure d’un marron foncé se redressa et, immobile près de la galerie, les menaça de ses crocs, sonnant l’alerte en aboyant de toutes ses forces.
Les retrievers font partie du groupe 8 du classement des races de chien par la société centrale canine ou SCC.
Synonyms
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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