retrouva
\ʁe.tʁu.va\
The verdict
“retrouva” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,839. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,839
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de retrouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrouva · retrouva · French
retrouva · rank #20,839 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,839
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relativiser
Nearest frequency peer: relativiser (-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 « retrouva »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- refuges
refuges
79,165 corpus weight
- regroupent
regroupent
79,164 corpus weight
- relativiser
relativiser
79,163 corpus weight
- retrouva
retrouva
79,162 corpus weight
- reviendront
reviendront
79,161 corpus weight
- richards
richards
79,160 corpus weight
What this shows « retrouva » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retrouva |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁu.va\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retrouva »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around retrouva (IPA \ʁe.tʁu.va\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,839 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de retrouver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for retrouva, with forms such as "ertrouva", "rertouva", and "retoruva". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "retrouvé", "retrouver", "retrouvez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is retrouva, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de retrouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retrouva appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré l’opacité de la nuit, il retrouva sans peine le lolo de Mignonnette.
Dès que l’air l’eût rafraîchie un peu, elle se retrouva avec l’idée des deux hommes, l’un qui la voulait, l’autre qui l’avait prise ; et elle ne réfléchissait pas plus loin, cela tournait simplement en elle, sans qu’elle jugeât ni décidât rien.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertrouva
- rertouva
- retoruva
- retrouav
- retrouvva
- retrovua
- retrrouva
- retruova
- rettrouva
- rretrouva
- rterouva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retrouva - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).