rets
\ʁɛ\
The verdict
“rets” is uncommon French (frequency #86,122 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,122
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Filet, ouvrage de corde, de fil, etc., noué par mailles et à jour, pour prendre du poisson, des oiseaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rets · rets · French
rets · rank #86,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,122
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressaisissez
Nearest frequency peer: ressaisissez (-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 « rets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reprocha
reprocha
13,882 corpus weight
- ressaisissez
ressaisissez
13,880 corpus weight
- rets
rets
13,879 corpus weight
- revigorant
revigorant
13,878 corpus weight
- ripaille
ripaille
13,877 corpus weight
- rishi
rishi
13,876 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rets is uncommon French at frequency #86,122 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
rets doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 rets, spelled R-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Filet, ouvrage de corde, de fil, etc., noué par mailles et à jour, pour prendre du poisson, des oiseaux.
- 2piège, traquenard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La croix qui avait été vécue par les disciples comme un point final catastrophique n’a pas enfermé Jésus dans les rets de la mort.
Le tout, désormais, consistait à déterminer de quelle manière le chasseur, qui se réveillait en lui, allait tendre ses rets.
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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