retourna
\ʁə.tuʁ.na\
The verdict
“retourna” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,463
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de retourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retourna · retourna · French
retourna · rank #16,463 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,463
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renée
Nearest frequency peer: renée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « retourna »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rassembleme…
rassemblements
83,541 corpus weight
- renée
renée
83,539 corpus weight
- retourna
retourna
83,538 corpus weight
- retrouvait
retrouvait
83,537 corpus weight
- rights
rights
83,536 corpus weight
- rossi
rossi
83,535 corpus weight
What this shows « retourna » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retourna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tuʁ.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retourna »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around retourna (IPA \ʁə.tuʁ.na\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,463 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de retourner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for retourna, with forms such as "ertourna", "reoturna", and "retoruna". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "return", "retours", "retourne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is retourna, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de retourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retourna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le légiste tourna et retourna le préservatif ensacheté entre ses doigts.
Quand César se retourna pour dire à sa femme : — Eh bien ! que veux-tu, Constance ? son air, comme celui des hommes distraits par des calculs, fut si exorbitamment niais, que madame Birotteau se mit à rire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertourna
- reoturna
- retoruna
- retounra
- retouran
- retournna
- retourrna
- rettourna
- retuorna
- rretourna
- rteourna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retourna - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).