retoquer
French, verb/ʁə.tɔ.ke/
retoquer is spelled R-E-T-O-Q-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retoquer is a French verb meaning “to reject, to turn down (especially a proposal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rejeter, en parlant d’une loi, d’un texte politique ou (vieilli) d’un candidat à un examen”.
What does retoquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reject, to turn down (especially a proposal)
- 2
datedto refuse candidacy to, especially, an exam
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rejeter, en parlant d’une loi, d’un texte politique ou (vieilli) d’un candidat à un examen. 2. Toquer de nouveau (au sens de frapper à la porte).
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 retoquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- retoquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- retoqué participle past
- retoque first-person indicative present
- retoques indicative present second-person
- retoquons first-person indicative plural
- retoquez indicative plural present
- retoquent indicative plural present
- retoquais first-person imperfect indicative
- retoquait imperfect indicative singular
- retoquions first-person imperfect indicative
- retoquiez imperfect indicative plural
- retoquaient imperfect indicative plural
- retoquai first-person historic indicative
- retoquas historic indicative past
- retoqua historic indicative past
- retoquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retoquer?
- /ʁə.tɔ.ke/
- \ʁə.tɔ.ke\
- [ʁə.tɔ.ke]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is retoquer in French?
retoquer appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).