rétrogradée

\ʁe.tʁɔ.ɡʁa.de\

/\ʁe.tʁɔ.ɡʁa.de\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétrogradée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for rétrogradée
PropertyValue
Headwordrétrogradée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁe.tʁɔ.ɡʁa.de\
Letters11
Frequency rank#98,460
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « rétrogradée » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).rétrogradéetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « régénérée » (#98,459), « rétrécissant » (#98,461), « régularités » (#98,458). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rétrogradée » est au #98,460. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin singulier de rétrograder.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how rétrogradée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rétrogradée"?
"rétrogradée" is spelled R-É-T-R-O-G-R-A-D-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.tʁɔ.ɡʁa.de\.
What does "rétrogradée" mean?
As a verb, "rétrogradée" means: Participe passé féminin singulier de rétrograder.
How do you pronounce "rétrogradée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rétrogradée" is \ʁe.tʁɔ.ɡʁa.de\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rétrogradée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list