raffiné
French, adjective
raffiné is spelled R-A-F-F-I-N-É (7 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written French, the 19,481st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Raffiné is a French adjective meaning “refined” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of raffiner. Without its accent, raffine is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui montre du raffinement, en parlant de personnes ou de choses”.
What does raffiné mean in English?
adjective
- 1
refined
- 2
sophisticated
verb
- 1
past participle of raffiner
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui montre du raffinement, en parlant de personnes ou de choses.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of raffiné
- raffinée feminine
- raffinés masculine plural
- raffinées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to raffiné
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is raffiné in French?
raffiné appears 2.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).