refried

noun

"refried" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“refried” is uncommon English (frequency #75,349 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,349
frequency rank, English
3,094
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ellipsis of refried bean.

Corpus desk

Index EN-refried · refried · English

refried · rank #75,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,349
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,094
  • PHOTO-FINISH rehydrate

Nearest frequency peer: rehydrate (+1 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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.

Long-tail ranks near “refried”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “refried” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for refried
PropertyValue
Headwordrefried
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#75,349
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “refried” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).refriedfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “rehydrate” (#75,350), “rejoinder” (#75,351), “recrimination” (#75,346). Among 3,094 “R” headwords, “refried” is #75,349. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

refried is uncommon English at frequency #75,349 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ellipsis of refried bean.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for refried, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is refried, spelled R-E-F-R-I-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ellipsis of refried bean.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how refried appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. My grief I cannot hide, there's no tortillas for my refrieds.

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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "refried"?
"refried" is spelled R-E-F-R-I-E-D.
What does "refried" mean?
As a noun, "refried" means: Ellipsis of refried bean.
What language does "refried" come from?
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "refried", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list