retrouvée

\ʁə.tʁu.ve\

/\ʁə.tʁu.ve\/ noun

The verdict

“retrouvée” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,749. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,749
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réunion avec des gens dont on était séparé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-retrouvee · retrouvée · French

retrouvée · rank #6,749 · 13 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,749
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rural

Nearest frequency peer: rural (+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 « retrouvée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « retrouvée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

retrouvée vs retrouver
78% similar
retrouvée vs retrouvez
78% similar
retrouvée vs retrouvés
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for retrouvée
PropertyValue
Headwordretrouvée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.tʁu.ve\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,749
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retrouvée »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).retrouvéese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rural » (#6,750), « restez » (#6,747), « rédigé » (#6,751). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « retrouvée » est au #6,749. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around retrouvée (IPA \ʁə.tʁu.ve\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,749 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Réunion avec des gens dont on était séparé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for retrouvée, with forms such as "ertrouvée", "rertouvée", and "retoruvée". 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. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "retrouver", "retrouvez", "retrouvés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is retrouvée, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Réunion avec des gens dont on était séparé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Mon père est là, maigre, l’air chagrin, immobile. Il me repoussait quand j’étais petit, et qu’on me jetait dans ses bras pour un baiser. Aussi, chaque fois qu’il y a la solennité d’un départ ou d’une retrouvée, est-ce un embarras pour nous deux !

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ertrouvée
  • rertouvée
  • retoruvée
  • retrouvee
  • retrouveé
  • retrouvvée
  • retrouéve
  • retrovuée
  • retrrouvée
  • retruovée
  • rettrouvée
  • rretrouvée
  • rterouvée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retrouvée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ertrouvée2rertouvée2retoruvée2retrouvee1retrouveé2retrouvvée1retrouéve2retrovuée2
Edit distance from "retrouvée"

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 "retrouvée"?
"retrouvée" is spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.tʁu.ve\.
What does "retrouvée" mean?
As a noun, "retrouvée" means: Réunion avec des gens dont on était séparé.
What words are commonly confused with "retrouvée"?
"retrouvée" is commonly confused with "retrouver", "retrouvez", "retrouvés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "retrouvée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "retrouvée" is \ʁə.tʁu.ve\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "retrouvée" come from?
"retrouvée" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list