rétracter
French, verb/ʁe.tʁak.te/
rétracter is spelled R-É-T-R-A-C-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 31,386th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rétracter is a French verb meaning “to retract, contract” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déclarer qu’on n’a plus l’opinion que l’on avait avancée, se dédire d’une chose qu’on avait dite ou écrite…”.
What does rétracter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to retract, contract
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déclarer qu’on n’a plus l’opinion que l’on avait avancée, se dédire d’une chose qu’on avait dite ou écrite, la désavouer. 2. Se dédire formellement. 3. Se retirer, se contracter.
verb: 1. Tirer en arrière. 2. Se raccourcir, se retirer, se contracter.
verb: 1. Tracter (tirer) à nouveau.
verb: 1. Tracter à nouveau (redistribuer des tracts).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rétracter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rétractant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rétracté participle past
- rétracte first-person indicative present
- rétractes indicative present second-person
- rétractons first-person indicative plural
- rétractez indicative plural present
- rétractent indicative plural present
- rétractais first-person imperfect indicative
- rétractait imperfect indicative singular
- rétractions first-person imperfect indicative
- rétractiez imperfect indicative plural
- rétractaient imperfect indicative plural
- rétractai first-person historic indicative
- rétractas historic indicative past
- rétracta historic indicative past
- rétractâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rétracter?
- /ʁe.tʁak.te/
- \ʁe.tʁak.te\
- \ʁə.tʁak.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rétracter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rétracter in French?
rétracter appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).