retrouvèrent
\ʁe.tʁu.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“retrouvèrent” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,144. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,144
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de retrouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrouverent · retrouvèrent · French
retrouvèrent · rank #44,144 · 19 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,144
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressasser
Nearest frequency peer: ressasser (-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 « retrouvèrent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- replacé
replacé
55,860 corpus weight
- repliés
repliés
55,859 corpus weight
- ressasser
ressasser
55,858 corpus weight
- retrouvèrent
retrouvèrent
55,857 corpus weight
- revendiquait
revendiquait
55,856 corpus weight
- reverrai
reverrai
55,855 corpus weight
What this shows « retrouvèrent » 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 | retrouvèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁu.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #44,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retrouvèrent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around retrouvèrent (IPA \ʁe.tʁu.vɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,144 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de retrouver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for retrouvèrent, with forms such as "ertrouvèrent", "rertouvèrent", and "retoruvèrent". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "retrouverez", "retrouveront", "retrouverons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 retrouvèrent, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de retrouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retrouvèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’abord, ils gagnèrent trois mille francs, revinrent à cinq cents, regagnèrent trois mille sept cents francs ; puis ils retombèrent à cent sous, se retrouvèrent à deux mille francs, et les risquèrent sur pair, pour les doubler d’un seul coup ; pair n’avait pas passé depuis cinq coups, ils y pontèrent la somme.
Ils traversèrent des coteaux plantés de pacos aux larges feuilles et d’odorants buissons de mastic dans des clairières. Ils retrouvèrent de hautes futaies sombres et de larges étendues sèches couvertes de cassiers en fleur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertrouvèrent
- rertouvèrent
- retoruvèrent
- retrouverent
- retrouvrèent
- retrouvvèrent
- retrouvèernt
- retrouvèrennt
- retrouvèrentt
- retrouvèretn
- retrouvèrnet
- retrouvèrrent
- retrouèvrent
- retrovuèrent
- retrrouvèrent
- retruovèrent
- rettrouvèrent
- rretrouvèrent
- rterouvèrent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retrouvèrent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).