raffermissement
\ʁa.fɛʁ.mis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“raffermissement” is uncommon French (frequency #87,070 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,070
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de raffermir ou état de ce qui est raffermi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raffermissement · raffermissement · French
raffermissement · rank #87,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,070
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radoub
Nearest frequency peer: radoub (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « raffermissement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rabaissent
rabaissent
12,934 corpus weight
- radioscopie
radioscopie
12,933 corpus weight
- radoub
radoub
12,932 corpus weight
- raffermisse…
raffermissement
12,931 corpus weight
- raffles
raffles
12,930 corpus weight
- raflent
raflent
12,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raffermissement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raffermissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.fɛʁ.mis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #87,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raffermissement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raffermissement is uncommon French at frequency #87,070 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.fɛʁ.mis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de raffermir ou état de ce qui est raffermi.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for raffermissement, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is raffermissement, spelled R-A-F-F-E-R-M-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de raffermir ou état de ce qui est raffermi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raffermissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le raffermissement des chairs.
Le raffermissement de la santé.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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