retenter
French, verb/ʁə.tɑ̃.te/
retenter is spelled R-E-T-E-N-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retenter is a French verb meaning “to retry, to try again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tenter de nouveau, ressayer”.
What does retenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to retry, to try again
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tenter de nouveau, ressayer.
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 retenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- retentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- retenté participle past
- retente first-person indicative present
- retentes indicative present second-person
- retentons first-person indicative plural
- retentez indicative plural present
- retentent indicative plural present
- retentais first-person imperfect indicative
- retentait imperfect indicative singular
- retentions first-person imperfect indicative
- retentiez imperfect indicative plural
- retentaient imperfect indicative plural
- retentai first-person historic indicative
- retentas historic indicative past
- retenta historic indicative past
- retentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retenter?
- /ʁə.tɑ̃.te/
- \ʁə.tɑ̃.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to retenter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retenter in French?
retenter appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).