retrouvait
\ʁe.tʁu.vɛ\
The verdict
“retrouvait” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,464
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retrouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrouvait · retrouvait · French
retrouvait · rank #16,464 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,464
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retourna
Nearest frequency peer: retourna (-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 « retrouvait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- renée
renée
83,539 corpus weight
- retourna
retourna
83,538 corpus weight
- retrouvait
retrouvait
83,537 corpus weight
- rights
rights
83,536 corpus weight
- rossi
rossi
83,535 corpus weight
- ru
ru
83,534 corpus weight
What this shows « retrouvait » 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 | retrouvait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁu.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retrouvait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around retrouvait (IPA \ʁe.tʁu.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,464 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retrouver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for retrouvait, with forms such as "ertrouvait", "rertouvait", and "retoruvait". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "retrouvent", "retrouvant", "retrouverait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 retrouvait, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retrouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retrouvait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au rappel de cet amour dont elle était follement jalouse, la princesse retrouvait son énergie coutumière en sentant la colère la réenvahir.
Ce girouettisme assez innocent se retrouvait dans ses opinions politiques ; il répondait à tout par le colosse du Nord, espèce de matérialisme anglais.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertrouvait
- rertouvait
- retoruvait
- retrouavit
- retrouvaitt
- retrouvati
- retrouviat
- retrouvvait
- retrovuait
- retrrouvait
- retruovait
- rettrouvait
- rretrouvait
- rterouvait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retrouvait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).