rétro-acronyme
French, noun/ʁe.tʁo.a.kʁɔ.nim/
rétro-acronyme is spelled R-É-T-R-O-A-C-R-O-N-Y-M-E (13 letters). Rétro-acronyme is a French masculine noun meaning “backronym (word that is originally not an acronym but is turned into one by devising a full form for it)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Acronyme expliqué après coup alors que ce n'en est pas un à l'origine, ou fantaisiste pour donner un nouveau…”.
What does rétro-acronyme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebackronym (word that is originally not an acronym but is turned into one by devising a full form for it)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acronyme expliqué après coup alors que ce n'en est pas un à l'origine, ou fantaisiste pour donner un nouveau sens à un acronyme existant.
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 rétro-acronyme
- rétro-acronymes plural
- rétroacronyme alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rétro-acronyme?
- /ʁe.tʁo.a.kʁɔ.nim/
- \ʁe.tʁo.a.kʁɔ.nim\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rétro-acronyme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.