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raffinate

noun, verb

raffinate is spelled R-A-F-F-I-N-A-T-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, raffinate means “A solution from which some material has been removed by extraction with an immiscible liquid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of raffinate is raffinates.

How many letters and syllables are in raffinate?

Letters9: R-A-F-F-I-N-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 79 million words; the 282,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is raffinate?

Raffinate appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).

Forms of raffinate

  • raffinates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • raffinating participle, present
  • raffinated participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does raffinate mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A solution from which some material has been removed by extraction with an immiscible liquid

verb

  1. 1

    To separate by means of raffination

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Raffinate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense solution:

LanguageWords
Frenchraffinat

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.

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