retoqué
\ʁə.tɔ.ke\
The verdict
“retoqué” is uncommon French (frequency #83,331 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,331
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe retoquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retoque · retoqué · French
retoqué · rank #83,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,331
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressouder
Nearest frequency peer: ressouder (-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 « retoqué »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- requinquer
requinquer
16,673 corpus weight
- ressemblante
ressemblante
16,672 corpus weight
- ressouder
ressouder
16,671 corpus weight
- retoqué
retoqué
16,670 corpus weight
- RGE
RGE
16,669 corpus weight
- rhénans
rhénans
16,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retoqué » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retoqué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tɔ.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retoqué » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retoqué is uncommon French at frequency #83,331 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tɔ.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe retoquer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for retoqué, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is retoqué, spelled R-E-T-O-Q-U-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe retoquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retoqué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le maire de Morlaix, Jean-Paul Vermot, et Morlaix communauté, avaient autorisé les organisateurs à puiser de l’eau dans la lagune afin d’arroser la piste en terre, mais le préfet a retoqué cette décision.
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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