retournons
\ʁə.tuʁ.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“retournons” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,507. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,507
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de retourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retournons · retournons · French
retournons · rank #39,507 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,507
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retardés
Nearest frequency peer: retardés (-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 « retournons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- restrictif
restrictif
60,497 corpus weight
- retable
retable
60,496 corpus weight
- retardés
retardés
60,495 corpus weight
- retournons
retournons
60,494 corpus weight
- revisité
revisité
60,493 corpus weight
- riel
riel
60,492 corpus weight
What this shows « retournons » 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 | retournons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tuʁ.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #39,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retournons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around retournons (IPA \ʁə.tuʁ.nɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,507 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for retournons, with forms such as "ertournons", "reoturnons", and "retorunons". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "retournés", "retournent", "retournant", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is retournons, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-N-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de retourner.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de retourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retournons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Retournons au Moyen Âge pour écouter le concert du trio de la Carité de Guingamor qui proposera une représentation dimanche 12 février à 17 h, en l’église Saint-Clodoald avec Gaëlle Durand (vièle à archet et chant), Maxime Fiorani (percussions et chant), Emmanuel Plard (instruments à vent et chant) et Pascal Mélis à l’orgue.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertournons
- reoturnons
- retorunons
- retounrons
- retournnons
- retournnos
- retournonns
- retournonss
- retournosn
- retouronns
- retourrnons
- rettournons
- retuornons
- rretournons
- rteournons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retournons - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).