retors
French, noun/ʁə.tɔʁ/
retors is spelled R-E-T-O-R-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 53,838th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retors is a French masculine noun meaning “twisted yarn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fil retordu, second tour donné à un fil, torsion des fils”.
What does retors mean in English?
adjective
- 1
warped, twisted (multiple times)
- 2
crafty, wily, tricky
noun
- 1
masculinetwisted yarn
noun
- 1
masculinefox (cunning person)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a été tordu plusieurs fois. 2. Qui a l’esprit tordu, qui est rusé, qui emploie des moyens détournés pour parvenir à ses fins. 3. Qui est le résultat d'une action tordue, indirecte. 4. Qui paraît retors.
noun: 1. Fil retordu, second tour donné à un fil, torsion des fils.
noun: 1. Personne retorse, fine, rusée, artificieuse.
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 retors
- retorse feminine
- retorses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retors?
- /ʁə.tɔʁ/
- \ʁə.tɔʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is retors in French?
retors appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).