raffermit
\ʁa.fɛʁ.mi\
The verdict
“raffermit” is uncommon French (frequency #91,077 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,077
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de raffermir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raffermit · raffermit · French
raffermit · rank #91,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,077
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH racoler
Nearest frequency peer: racoler (-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 « raffermit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rabaud
Rabaud
8,927 corpus weight
- racks
racks
8,926 corpus weight
- racoler
racoler
8,925 corpus weight
- raffermit
raffermit
8,924 corpus weight
- rait
rait
8,923 corpus weight
- rajouts
rajouts
8,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raffermit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raffermit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.fɛʁ.mi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raffermit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raffermit is uncommon French at frequency #91,077 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.fɛʁ.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for raffermit, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is raffermit, spelled R-A-F-F-E-R-M-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de raffermir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de raffermir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raffermit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Réenroulant la corde autour de lui, crochet calé au-dedans, Bill raffermit son revolver dans la ceinture et glissa un coup d’œil à travers la fenêtre.
Vingt mois environ se passèrent, pendant lesquels la santé de la baronne se raffermit, sans que néanmoins son tremblement nerveux cessât.
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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