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retailler

French, verb/ʁə.ta.je/

retailler is spelled R-E-T-A-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retailler is a French verb meaning “to recut (to cut again)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tailler de nouveau”.

What does retailler mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to recut (to cut again)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Tailler de nouveau. 2. Agir en tant que retaille, annuler au dernier moment.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of retailler

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • retaillant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • retaillé participle past
  • retaille first-person indicative present
  • retailles indicative present second-person
  • retaillons first-person indicative plural
  • retaillez indicative plural present
  • retaillent indicative plural present
  • retaillais first-person imperfect indicative
  • retaillait imperfect indicative singular
  • retaillions first-person imperfect indicative
  • retailliez imperfect indicative plural
  • retaillaient imperfect indicative plural
  • retaillai first-person historic indicative
  • retaillas historic indicative past
  • retailla historic indicative past
  • retaillâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce retailler?

  • /ʁə.ta.je/
  • \ʁə.tɑ.je\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is retailler in French?

retailler appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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