raffinée
\ʁa.fi.ne\
The verdict
“raffinée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,101
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de raffiné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raffinee · raffinée · French
raffinée · rank #25,101 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,101
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raciales
Nearest frequency peer: raciales (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « raffinée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pénitencier
pénitencier
74,906 corpus weight
- pétards
pétards
74,905 corpus weight
- pétasse
pétasse
74,904 corpus weight
- raciales
raciales
74,901 corpus weight
- raffinée
raffinée
74,900 corpus weight
- regime
regime
74,896 corpus weight
What this shows « raffinée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raffinée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁa.fi.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « raffinée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around raffinée (IPA \ʁa.fi.ne\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,101 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de raffiné.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for raffinée, with forms such as "arffinée", "raffinee", and "raffineé". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "raffinés", "raffinées", "raffinerie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is raffinée, spelled R-A-F-F-I-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de raffiné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how raffinée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toujours servi par son étoile, il entre le premier en Alsace, fait la campagne de Salonique, survit à l’épidémie d’entérite qui nettoie sa formation, rapporte Lectures pour une ombre où il trouve moyen de gongoriser avec une grâce raffinée et parfois profonde (c’est l’un de ses meilleurs livres), sur ses horribles souvenirs de fantassin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arffinée
- raffinee
- raffineé
- raffinnée
- raffiéne
- raffniée
- rafifnée
- rafinée
- rfafinée
- rraffinée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raffinée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).