retrouvions
\ʁe.tʁu.vjɔ̃\
The verdict
“retrouvions” is uncommon French (frequency #61,846 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,846
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retrouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrouvions · retrouvions · French
retrouvions · rank #61,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,846
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retrousser
Nearest frequency peer: retrousser (-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 « retrouvions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repu
repu
38,159 corpus weight
- resserrent
resserrent
38,157 corpus weight
- retrousser
retrousser
38,156 corpus weight
- retrouvions
retrouvions
38,155 corpus weight
- reverrais
reverrais
38,153 corpus weight
- reverrait
reverrait
38,152 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retrouvions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retrouvions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁu.vjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retrouvions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retrouvions is uncommon French at frequency #61,846 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.tʁu.vjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for retrouvions, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is retrouvions, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de retrouver.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de retrouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retrouvions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peu encline à l’immobilisme et à la réclusion, elle sillonnait la ville et nous nous retrouvions à la terrasse du Cala au-dessus des galets gris et du vacarme des vagues, ou dans le quartier de Rímac au pied du Cerro San Cristóbal de l’autre côté du pont gardé par un blindé sur roues, ancien bourg colonial espagnol devenu cour des miracles, estropiés et c…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).