retournai
\ʁə.tuʁ.ne\
The verdict
“retournai” is uncommon French (frequency #82,419 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,419
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de retourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retournai · retournai · French
retournai · rank #82,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,419
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restructurée
Nearest frequency peer: restructurée (-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 « retournai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ressourceme…
ressourcement
17,585 corpus weight
- restructurée
restructurée
17,583 corpus weight
- retournai
retournai
17,582 corpus weight
- revendait
revendait
17,581 corpus weight
- reversement
reversement
17,580 corpus weight
- revisitant
revisitant
17,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retournai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retournai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tuʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retournai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retournai is uncommon French at frequency #82,419 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tuʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple de retourner.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for retournai in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is retournai, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-N-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de retourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retournai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’arrêtai mon geste en pleine course et me retournai avec un air soupçonneux.
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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