rétrécissement
French, noun/ʁe.tʁe.sis.mɑ̃/
rétrécissement is spelled R-É-T-R-É-C-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T (14 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 38,202nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rétrécissement is a French masculine noun meaning “shrinking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action par laquelle une chose est rétrécie ; état d’une chose rétrécie”.
What does rétrécissement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshrinking
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action par laquelle une chose est rétrécie ; état d’une chose rétrécie.
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 rétrécissement
- rétrécissements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rétrécissement?
- /ʁe.tʁe.sis.mɑ̃/
- \ʁe.tʁe.sis.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rétrécissement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rétrécissement in French?
rétrécissement appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).