retrouveraient
\ʁe.tʁu.və.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“retrouveraient” is uncommon French (frequency #56,228 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,228
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du conditionnel présent de retrouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrouveraient · retrouveraient · French
retrouveraient · rank #56,228 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,228
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retournerons
Nearest frequency peer: retournerons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « retrouveraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ressortis
ressortis
43,776 corpus weight
- retombera
retombera
43,775 corpus weight
- retournerons
retournerons
43,774 corpus weight
- retrouverai…
retrouveraient
43,773 corpus weight
- rhapsody
rhapsody
43,772 corpus weight
- rings
rings
43,771 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retrouveraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retrouveraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁu.və.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #56,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retrouveraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retrouveraient is uncommon French at frequency #56,228 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.tʁu.və.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du conditionnel présent de retrouver.".
retrouveraient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is retrouveraient, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-E-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du conditionnel présent de retrouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retrouveraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
... les joues retrouveraient leur pâleur...
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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