rétrojeu vidéo
\ʁe.tʁɔ.ʒø vi.de.o\
The verdict
“rétrojeu vidéo” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Pratique consistant à jouer à des jeux vidéo anciens sur des consoles ou des ordinateurs d’origine ou sur des matériels récents adaptés à cet effet, et à collectionner ces jeux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétrojeu vidéo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁɔ.ʒø vi.de.o\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rétrojeu vidéo” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rétrojeu vidéo is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.tʁɔ.ʒø vi.de.o\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pratique consistant à jouer à des jeux vidéo anciens sur des consoles ou des ordinateurs d’origine ou sur des matériels récents adaptés à cet effet, et à collectionner ces jeux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rétrojeu vidéo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rétrojeu vidéo, spelled R-É-T-R-O-J-E-U- -V-I-D-É-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pratique consistant à jouer à des jeux vidéo anciens sur des consoles ou des ordinateurs d’origine ou sur des matériels récents adaptés à cet effet, et à collectionner ces jeux.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-É-T-R-O-J-E-U- -V-I-D-É-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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