rétrovirus
\ʁe.tʁɔ.vi.ʁys\
The verdict
“rétrovirus” is uncommon French (frequency #64,761 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,761
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Classe de virus à ARN spécifique des eucaryotes et dont la propagation nécessite la conversion de l'ARN en ADN double brin qui lui, s'intègre dans le génome de la cellule hôte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrovirus · rétrovirus · French
rétrovirus · rank #64,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,761
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH répercuté
Nearest frequency peer: répercuté (-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 « rétrovirus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réduisons
réduisons
35,244 corpus weight
- réincarné
réincarné
35,242 corpus weight
- répercuté
répercuté
35,241 corpus weight
- rétrovirus
rétrovirus
35,240 corpus weight
- réussissaie…
réussissaient
35,239 corpus weight
- sacrum
sacrum
35,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétrovirus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétrovirus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁɔ.vi.ʁys\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétrovirus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétrovirus is uncommon French at frequency #64,761 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.tʁɔ.vi.ʁys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Classe de virus à ARN spécifique des eucaryotes et dont la propagation nécessite la conversion de l'ARN en ADN double brin qui lui, s'intègre dans le génome de la cellule hôte.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rétrovirus in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rétrovirus, spelled R-É-T-R-O-V-I-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Classe de virus à ARN spécifique des eucaryotes et dont la propagation nécessite la conversion de l'ARN en ADN double brin qui lui, s'intègre dans le génome de la cellule hôte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rétrovirus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les rétrovirus ne sont pas tous oncogènes.
This word in other languages
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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