retriever
French, noun/ʁə.tʁi.vœʁ/
retriever is spelled R-E-T-R-I-E-V-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retriever is a French masculine noun meaning “retriever” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Une des races de chiens de chasse, dressés à trouver, poursuivre et rapporter le gibier”.
What does retriever mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineretriever
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Une des races de chiens de chasse, dressés à trouver, poursuivre et rapporter le gibier.
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 retriever
- retrievers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retriever?
- /ʁə.tʁi.vœʁ/
- /ʁe.tʁi.vœʁ/
- \ʁe.tʁi.vœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to retriever
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retriever in French?
retriever appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).