retransmettre
French, verb/ʁə.tʁɑ̃s.mɛtʁ/
retransmettre is spelled R-E-T-R-A-N-S-M-E-T-T-R-E (13 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 58,502nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retransmettre is a French verb meaning “to retransmit (to transmit again)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Transmettre dans le cas d’une émission radiophonique ou télévisuelle”.
What does retransmettre mean in English?
verb
- 1
to retransmit (to transmit again)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Transmettre dans le cas d’une émission radiophonique ou télévisuelle. 2. Transmettre à nouveau.
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 retransmettre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- retransmettant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- retransmis participle past
- retransmets first-person indicative present
- retransmet indicative present singular
- retransmettons first-person indicative plural
- retransmettez indicative plural present
- retransmettent indicative plural present
- retransmettais first-person imperfect indicative
- retransmettait imperfect indicative singular
- retransmettions first-person imperfect indicative
- retransmettiez imperfect indicative plural
- retransmettaient imperfect indicative plural
- retransmit historic indicative past
- retransmîmes first-person historic indicative
- retransmîtes historic indicative past
- retransmirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retransmettre?
- /ʁə.tʁɑ̃s.mɛtʁ/
- \ʁə.tʁɑ̃s.mɛtʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to retransmettre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retransmettre in French?
retransmettre appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).