rétrospectivement
\ʁet.ʁɔs.pɛk.tiv.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“rétrospectivement” has 28 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,147. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,147
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 28
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière rétrospective.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrospectivement · rétrospectivement · French
rétrospectivement · rank #36,147 · 28 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,147
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 28 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH résines
Nearest frequency peer: résines (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rétrospectivement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réprimé
réprimé
63,856 corpus weight
- résines
résines
63,855 corpus weight
- rétrospecti…
rétrospectivement
63,854 corpus weight
- salis
salis
63,853 corpus weight
- Samoa
Samoa
63,852 corpus weight
- Santini
Santini
63,851 corpus weight
What this shows « rétrospectivement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétrospectivement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ʁet.ʁɔs.pɛk.tiv.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #36,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 28 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rétrospectivement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 28 spelling variants around rétrospectivement (IPA \ʁet.ʁɔs.pɛk.tiv.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #36,147 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "D’une manière rétrospective.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 28 likely wrong-spelling variants for rétrospectivement, with forms such as "retrospectivement", "rrétrospectivement", and "rtérospectivement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rétrospectivement, spelled R-É-T-R-O-S-P-E-C-T-I-V-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière rétrospective.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- retrospectivement
- rrétrospectivement
- rtérospectivement
- rértospectivement
- rétorspectivement
- rétropsectivement
- rétrosepctivement
- rétrospcetivement
- rétrospecctivement
- rétrospecitvement
- rétrospectievment
- rétrospectiveemnt
- rétrospectivemennt
- rétrospectivementt
- rétrospectivemetn
- rétrospectivemment
- rétrospectivemnet
- rétrospectivmeent
- rétrospectivvement
- rétrospecttivement
- rétrospectviement
- rétrospetcivement
- rétrosppectivement
- rétrosspectivement
- rétrrospectivement
- rétrsopectivement
- réttrospectivement
- értrospectivement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rétrospectivement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rétrospectivement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 17 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (28 here; floor ≥5).