refried
"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)
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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
- recriminati…
recrimination
24,655 corpus weight
- refried
refried
24,652 corpus weight
- rehydrate
rehydrate
24,651 corpus weight
- rejoinder
rejoinder
24,650 corpus weight
- repairer
repairer
24,649 corpus weight
- reperfusion
reperfusion
24,647 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “refried” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refried |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “refried” in English
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
- 1Ellipsis of refried bean.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how refried appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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