raffinés

\ʁa.fi.ne\

/\ʁa.fi.ne\/ adj

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The verdict

“raffinés” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,670. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,670
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de raffiné.

Corpus desk

Index FR-raffines · raffinés · French

raffinés · rank #31,670 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #31,670
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH radieuse

Nearest frequency peer: radieuse (-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 « raffinés »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « raffinés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

raffinés vs raffinée
88% similar
raffinés vs raffinées
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for raffinés
PropertyValue
Headwordraffinés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁa.fi.ne\
Letters8
Frequency rank#31,670
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « raffinés »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.raffinésse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « radieuse » (#31,669), « raider » (#31,671), « rabbit » (#31,668). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « raffinés » est au #31,670. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around raffinés (IPA \ʁa.fi.ne\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,670 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de raffiné.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for raffinés, with forms such as "arffinés", "raffines", and "raffinnés". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "raffinée", "raffinées", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is raffinés, spelled R-A-F-F-I-N-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de raffiné.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how raffinés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il faut supprimer les sucres raffinés : plats ultratransformés, pâtisseries, snacks et pains industriels.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arffinés
  • raffines
  • raffinnés
  • raffinsé
  • raffinéss
  • raffiéns
  • raffniés
  • rafifnés
  • rafinés
  • rfafinés
  • rraffinés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raffinés - 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.

arffinés2raffines1raffinnés1raffinsé2raffinéss1raffiéns2raffniés2rafifnés2
Edit distance from "raffinés"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "raffinés"?
"raffinés" is spelled R-A-F-F-I-N-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.fi.ne\.
What does "raffinés" mean?
As an adjective, "raffinés" means: Masculin pluriel de raffiné.
What words are commonly confused with "raffinés"?
"raffinés" is commonly confused with "raffinée", "raffinées". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "raffinés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "raffinés" is \ʁa.fi.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "raffinés" come from?
"raffinés" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "raffinés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

radieuse#31,669ramenait#31,672ratifier#31,674recopier#31,679

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

propagé11 variantsredouter11 variantspromises11 variantsPresley11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list