rétrogradée
\ʁe.tʁɔ.ɡʁa.de\
The verdict
“rétrogradée” is uncommon French (frequency #98,460 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,460
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de rétrograder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrogradee · rétrogradée · French
rétrogradée · rank #98,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,460
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH régénérée
Nearest frequency peer: régénérée (-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 « rétrogradée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réglementai…
réglementairement
1,544 corpus weight
- 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
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétrogradée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétrogradée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁɔ.ɡʁa.de\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #98,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétrogradée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétrogradée is uncommon French at frequency #98,460 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.tʁɔ.ɡʁa.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de rétrograder.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rétrogradée, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rétrogradée, spelled R-É-T-R-O-G-R-A-D-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de rétrograder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rétrogradée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Signe Krach est devenue Première ministre, plus jeune que Birgitte Nyborg, rétrogradée, elle, ministre des Affaires Étrangères.
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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