retourner sa veste
\ʁə.tuʁ.ne sa vɛst\
The verdict
“retourner sa veste” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Changer de camp ou d’opinion par intérêt et non en vertu de principes moraux, afin de saisir une occasion ou d’échapper à une menace.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retourner sa veste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tuʁ.ne sa vɛst\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “retourner sa veste” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for retourner sa veste is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.tuʁ.ne sa vɛst\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Changer de camp ou d’opinion par intérêt et non en vertu de principes moraux, afin de saisir une occasion ou d’échapper à une menace.".
retourner sa veste has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is retourner sa veste, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-N-E-R- -S-A- -V-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Changer de camp ou d’opinion par intérêt et non en vertu de principes moraux, afin de saisir une occasion ou d’échapper à une menace.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “retourner sa veste”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-T-O-U-R-N-E-R- -S-A- -V-E-S-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.tuʁ.ne sa vɛst\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.