retourner
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,055
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
retourner is aFrenchverb. It means: Aller de nouveau en un lieu. Pronounced \ʁə.tuʁ.ne\. It ranks #2,055 in French word frequency. Often confused with retournés and retournez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retourner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tuʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for retourner is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.tuʁ.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,055 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for retourner, with forms such as "ertourner", "reoturner", and "retoruner". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "retournés", "retournez", "retournera", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is retourner, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aller de nouveau en un lieu.
- 2Revenir au lieu d’où l’on est venu.
- 3Recommencer à faire les mêmes choses, les mêmes actions.
- 4Faire retour.
- 5Tourner d’un autre côté.
- 6Imputer à autrui ses propres turpitudes.
- 7Refaire, réparer, un vêtement, en mettant en dehors l’envers du tissu quand l’endroit est usé.
- 8Remuer en tous sens pour lui faire prendre l’assaisonnement, en parlant d’une salade.
- 9Bêcher, labourer, pour implanter une culture.
- 10Faire changer d’avis ou de parti à quelqu’un.
- 11Remuer pour chercher.
- 12Renvoyer une information, une valeur après l’exécution d’une commande ou d’une instruction dans le cadre d’une fonction.
- 13Renvoyer.
- 14Émouvoir.
- 15De quoi il retourne équivaut à de quoi il s’agit, ce dont il est question.
- 16Ressembler à l’un de ses parents.
- 17Se tourner dans un autre sens.
- 18Prendre d’autres moyens, prendre d’autres arrangements en rapport avec des circonstances, des conditions nouvelles.
- 19Donner un coup.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ertourner,reoturner,retoruner,retounrer,retourenr,retournerr,retournner,retournre,retourrner,rettourner,retuorner,rretourner,rteourner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for retourner
Misspelling Variants of "retourner"
Frequency rank: #2,055 in French
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