refrigerate
/ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/verb
refrigerate is spelled R-E-F-R-I-G-E-R-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is refridgerate: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Refrigerate is a verb meaning “To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator”.
How many letters and syllables are in refrigerate?
| Letters | 11: R-E-F-R-I-G-E-R-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 42,680th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, refridgerate, about 180 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell refrigerate?
Refrigerate is spelled R-E-F-R-I-G-E-R-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for refrigerate in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is refrigerate?
Refrigerate appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,680th 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).
How do you pronounce refrigerate?
- /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/
Refrigerate has 4 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-refrigerate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of refrigerate
- refrigerates present, singular, he/she/it
- refrigerating participle, present
- refrigerated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does refrigerate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.
- 2
To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator.
Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Refrigerate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense keep cool in refrigerator:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | réfrigérer |
| German | kühlen |
| Portuguese | refrigerar |
| Spanish | refrigerar |
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 refrigerate come from?
From participle stem of Latin refrigerō (“to make cold”), from re- + frigerō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).