raffinerie
\ʁa.fin.ʁi\
The verdict
“raffinerie” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,996. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,996
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Usine où l’on raffine certaines substances.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raffinerie · raffinerie · French
raffinerie · rank #22,996 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,996
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH pérenne
Nearest frequency peer: pérenne (-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 « raffinerie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- préventif
préventif
77,009 corpus weight
- pâtisseries
pâtisseries
77,008 corpus weight
- pépinière
pépinière
77,007 corpus weight
- pérenne
pérenne
77,006 corpus weight
- raffinerie
raffinerie
77,005 corpus weight
- rapportées
rapportées
77,003 corpus weight
What this shows « raffinerie » 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 | raffinerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.fin.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #22,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « raffinerie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around raffinerie (IPA \ʁa.fin.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,996 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for raffinerie, with forms such as "arffinerie", "raffienrie", and "raffineire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "raffineries", "raffinée", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is raffinerie, spelled R-A-F-F-I-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Usine où l’on raffine certaines substances.
- 2Profession ou métier des raffineurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raffinerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant les raffineries, on peut citer les mouvements à Carrefour, Sephora, dans le secteur aérien…
En début d’année, on apportait à la raffinerie la récolte de canne à sucre des mois précédents. Une odeur très forte se dégageait des tiges écrasées puis brûlées. C’était pour le sucre que les Français avaient investi l’île ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arffinerie
- raffienrie
- raffineire
- raffinerei
- raffinerrie
- raffinnerie
- raffinreie
- raffnierie
- rafifnerie
- rafinerie
- rfafinerie
- rraffinerie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raffinerie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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