rafraîchi
\ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi\
The verdict
“rafraîchi” is uncommon French (frequency #54,197 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,197
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de rafraîchir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rafraichi · rafraîchi · French
rafraîchi · rank #54,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,197
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH railler
Nearest frequency peer: railler (+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 « rafraîchi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rabhi
Rabhi
45,807 corpus weight
- radins
radins
45,806 corpus weight
- rafraîchi
rafraîchi
45,804 corpus weight
- railler
railler
45,803 corpus weight
- Rajasthan
Rajasthan
45,802 corpus weight
- rampants
rampants
45,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rafraîchi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rafraîchi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rafraîchi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rafraîchi is uncommon French at frequency #54,197 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de rafraîchir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rafraîchi in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rafraîchi, spelled R-A-F-R-A-Î-C-H-I.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de rafraîchir.
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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