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retrouvaille

French, noun/ʁə.tʁu.vaj/

retrouvaille is spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-V-A-I-L-L-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retrouvaille is a French feminine noun meaning “reunion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réunion avec des gens dont on était séparé”.

What does retrouvaille mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininereunion

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Réunion avec des gens dont on était séparé.

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 retrouvaille

  • retrouvailles plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce retrouvaille?

  • /ʁə.tʁu.vaj/
  • \ʁə.tʁu.vaj\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is retrouvaille in French?

retrouvaille appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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