rafraîchie
\ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi\
The verdict
“rafraîchie” is uncommon French (frequency #85,190 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,190
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de rafraîchir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rafraichie · rafraîchie · French
rafraîchie · rank #85,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,190
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rafal
Nearest frequency peer: Rafal (-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 « rafraîchie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rache
rache
14,814 corpus weight
- radiofréque…
radiofréquence
14,813 corpus weight
- Rafal
Rafal
14,812 corpus weight
- rafraîchie
rafraîchie
14,811 corpus weight
- ragga
ragga
14,810 corpus weight
- rajoutera
rajoutera
14,809 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rafraîchie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rafraîchie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rafraîchie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rafraîchie is uncommon French at frequency #85,190 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de rafraîchir.".
rafraîchie has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rafraîchie, spelled R-A-F-R-A-Î-C-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de rafraîchir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rafraîchie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Repeignée, rafraîchie, elle reprenait figure.
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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