retrouverais
\ʁe.tʁu.və.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“retrouverais” is uncommon French (frequency #56,884 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,884
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de retrouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrouverais · retrouverais · French
retrouverais · rank #56,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,884
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rerum
Nearest frequency peer: rerum (-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 « retrouverais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reproductive
reproductive
43,120 corpus weight
- représentan…
représentantes
43,119 corpus weight
- rerum
rerum
43,118 corpus weight
- retrouverais
retrouverais
43,117 corpus weight
- revendues
revendues
43,116 corpus weight
- ribes
ribes
43,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retrouverais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retrouverais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁu.və.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #56,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retrouverais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retrouverais is uncommon French at frequency #56,884 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.tʁu.və.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for retrouverais, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is retrouverais, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-E-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de retrouver.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de retrouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retrouverais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Jure-moi que s’il devait m’arriver malheur, tu retrouverais ma famille, et qu’ensuite tu veillerais sur elle.
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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