retirage
French, noun\ʁə.ti.ʁaʒ\
retirage is spelled R-E-T-I-R-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 164,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retirage is a French masculine noun meaning “removal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de retirer”.
What does retirage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineremoval
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de retirer. 2. Action de retirer le linge du cuvier de lessive pour le porter à la rivière. (Genlis, Maison rust. t. II, page 23, cité dans Spécimen du Trésor des origines de la langue française) 3. Réimpression. 4. Réchauffement des restes d'un plat campagnard, comme une potée de la veille par exemple. Il se fait toujours avec de la graisse : saindoux, beurre
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 retirage
- retirages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retirage?
- \ʁə.ti.ʁaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is retirage in French?
retirage appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).