retour
French, noun/ʁə.tuʁ/
retour is spelled R-E-T-O-U-R (6 letters) and appears 204 times per million words in written French, the 398th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retour is a French masculine noun meaning “return” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tour en sens contraire”.
What does retour mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinereturn
Le retour de Zidane redonne de l'élan aux Bleus
- 2
masculinesecond coming
- 3
masculinefeedback (critical assessment of process or activity)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tour en sens contraire. 2. Action du cerf qui revient sur lui-même, c’est-à-dire sur les mêmes voies, pour les confondre et dérouter les chiens. 3. Ruse, artifice. 4. Action de revenir, de retourner.
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 retour
- retours plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retour?
- /ʁə.tuʁ/
- \ʁə.tuʁ\
- [ʁə.tuʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to retour
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retour in French?
retour appears 204 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).