retrouver
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#829
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
retrouver is aFrenchverb. It means: Revenir en contact avec quelqu'un ou quelque chose dont on avait été séparé, qu'on avait perdu ou qu'on avait oublié. Pronounced \ʁə.tʁu.ve\. It ranks #829 in French word frequency. Often confused with retrouvez and retrouvés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retrouver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁu.ve\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for retrouver is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.tʁu.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #829 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for retrouver, with forms such as "ertrouver", "rertouver", and "retoruver". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "retrouvez", "retrouvés", "retrouvera", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is retrouver, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Revenir en contact avec quelqu'un ou quelque chose dont on avait été séparé, qu'on avait perdu ou qu'on avait oublié.
- 2Revenir en contact avec quelque chose qui avait été perdu, voire oublié, par quelqu'un d'autre.
- 3Récupérer, rentrer en possession de quelque chose qu'on avait perdu ou oublié.
- 4Rejoindre.
- 5Reconnaître.
- 6Reconnaître son chemin, s’orienter, se repérer.
- 7Prendre ou reprendre une position ou une situation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ertrouver,rertouver,retoruver,retrouevr,retrouverr,retrouvre,retrouvver,retrovuer,retrrouver,retruover,rettrouver,rretrouver,rterouver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for retrouver
Misspelling Variants of "retrouver"
Frequency rank: #829 in French
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