retrouvent
\ʁe.tʁuv\
The verdict
“retrouvent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,280. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,280
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de retrouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrouvent · retrouvent · French
retrouvent · rank #4,280 · 15 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,280
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Ressort
Nearest frequency peer: Ressort (-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 « retrouvent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remercier
remercier
95,724 corpus weight
- respectivem…
respectivement
95,723 corpus weight
- Ressort
Ressort
95,722 corpus weight
- retrouvent
retrouvent
95,721 corpus weight
- retrouvez
retrouvez
95,720 corpus weight
- rive
rive
95,719 corpus weight
What this shows « retrouvent » 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 | retrouvent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁuv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retrouvent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around retrouvent (IPA \ʁe.tʁuv\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,280 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for retrouvent, with forms such as "ertrouvent", "rertouvent", and "retoruvent". 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 14 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is retrouvent, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de retrouver.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de retrouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retrouvent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beaucoup de parents n’ayant absolument pas prévu de « cododoter » se retrouvent avec bébé dans leur lit, parce qu’il ne dort bien qu’à cet endroit !
Les tics – tout comme le parkinsonisme – tout à la fois « démusicalisent » l’individu et imposent, pour que soit restaurée une véritable musicalité (et individualité) du mouvement et de l’action (voir ici, et ici), que les patients retrouvent la musique, la mélodie intégratrice, motrice et personnelle, qui leur est spécifique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertrouvent
- rertouvent
- retoruvent
- retrouevnt
- retrouvennt
- retrouventt
- retrouvetn
- retrouvnet
- retrouvvent
- retrovuent
- retrrouvent
- retruovent
- rettrouvent
- rretrouvent
- rterouvent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retrouvent - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).