retournèrent
\ʁə.tuʁ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“retournèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #52,315 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,315
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de retourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retournerent · retournèrent · French
retournèrent · rank #52,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,315
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retardant
Nearest frequency peer: retardant (-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 « retournèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- remballer
remballer
47,689 corpus weight
- remercierai
remercierai
47,688 corpus weight
- retardant
retardant
47,687 corpus weight
- retournèrent
retournèrent
47,686 corpus weight
- riais
riais
47,685 corpus weight
- RMN
RMN
47,683 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retournèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retournèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tuʁ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #52,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retournèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retournèrent is uncommon French at frequency #52,315 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tuʁ.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de retourner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for retournèrent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is retournèrent, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-N-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de retourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retournèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il retournèrent ensemble dans la salle à manger, et ce fut seulement quelques semaines plus tard que Franck y repensa.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "retournèrent"?
What does "retournèrent" mean?
How do you pronounce "retournèrent"?
What language does "retournèrent" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retournèrent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).