refinance
verb
refinance is a verb meaning “To renew the terms of a loan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-F-I-N-A-N-C-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does refinance mean?
verb
- 1
To renew the terms of a loan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce refinance?
Refinance has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of refinance
- refinances present, singular, he/she/it
- refinancing participle, present
- refinanced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is refinance?
Refinance appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Refinance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense renew the terms of a loan:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | refinancer |
| Spanish | refinanciar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does refinance come from?
From re- + finance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).