retrousse
\ʁe.tʁus\
The verdict
“retrousse” is uncommon French (frequency #79,682 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,682
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pressage supplémentaire que l'on donne lors de la fabrication du vin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retrousse · retrousse · French
retrousse · rank #79,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,682
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retraire
Nearest frequency peer: retraire (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « retrousse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repêchée
repêchée
20,323 corpus weight
- ressaisie
ressaisie
20,321 corpus weight
- retraire
retraire
20,320 corpus weight
- retrousse
retrousse
20,319 corpus weight
- ricanant
ricanant
20,317 corpus weight
- ricanements
ricanements
20,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retrousse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retrousse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁus\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retrousse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retrousse is uncommon French at frequency #79,682 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.tʁus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pressage supplémentaire que l'on donne lors de la fabrication du vin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for retrousse in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is retrousse, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Pressage supplémentaire que l'on donne lors de la fabrication du vin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retrousse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour ce pressoir, la retrousse s'effectue manuellement en remaniant l'extérieur du gâteau de maie vers le centre du pressoir.
Quand l'écoulement du moût devient insignifiant, on pratique la retrousse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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