retours

\ʁə.tuʁ\

/\ʁə.tuʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“retours” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,651. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,651
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de retour.

Corpus desk

Index FR-retours · retours · French

retours · rank #6,651 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,651
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH remplie

Nearest frequency peer: remplie (-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 « retours »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « retours » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

retours vs return
71% similar
retours vs rêveurs
57% similar
retours vs retour
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for retours
PropertyValue
Headwordretours
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.tuʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,651
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retours »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.retoursse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « remplie » (#6,650), « revers » (#6,652), « raisonnement » (#6,649). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « retours » est au #6,651. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around retours (IPA \ʁə.tuʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,651 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de retour.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for retours, with forms such as "ertours", "reoturs", and "retorus". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "return", "rêveurs", "retour", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 retours, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de retour.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how retours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Au-dehors, la lumière, et pas seulement la lumière, commençait à se désamoindrir ; et l’homme qui avait mal au cœur du noir vit comment cette bagarre des retours encendrait aussitôt le terrain crevassé de la nuit.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ertours
  • reoturs
  • retorus
  • retourrs
  • retourss
  • retousr
  • rettours
  • retuors
  • rretours
  • rteours

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retours - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ertours2reoturs2retorus2retourrs1retourss1retousr2rettours1retuors2
Edit distance from "retours"

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 "retours"?
"retours" is spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.tuʁ\.
What does "retours" mean?
As a noun, "retours" means: Pluriel de retour.
What words are commonly confused with "retours"?
"retours" is commonly confused with "return", "rêveurs", "retour". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "retours"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "retours" is \ʁə.tuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "retours" come from?
"retours" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retours", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

remplie#6,650mettait#6,631arrêtée#6,680futures#6,618

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

soutenue10 variantsbonhomme10 variantsfavoris10 variantsestomac10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list