rétamer
\ʁe.ta.me\
The verdict
“rétamer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étamer de nouveau des ustensiles de ménage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retamer · rétamer · French
rétamer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétamer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ta.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétamer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétamer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.ta.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rétamer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rétamer, spelled R-É-T-A-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Étamer de nouveau des ustensiles de ménage.
- 2Faire chuter, ruiner, épuiser, faire perdre.
- 3Chuter, tomber, perdre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rétamer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rétamer des casseroles.
C’étaient de vraies feuilles d’étain, si vraies, si lourdes et si épaisses que ma mère les gardait précieusement, les roulait en boule, et quand la boule était assez grosse en faisait rétamer les cuillers et fourchettes.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.