rafraîchir
French, verb
rafraîchir is spelled R-A-F-R-A-Î-C-H-I-R (10 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 17,903rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rafraîchir is a French verb meaning “to refresh” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, rafraichir is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of rafraîchir”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre frais, donner de la fraîcheur”.
What does rafraîchir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to refresh
- 2
to cool off
- 3
to freshen up
- 4
to do up (a flat)
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of rafraîchir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre frais, donner de la fraîcheur. 2. Réparer, remettre en meilleur état. 3. Éliminer des parties blessées ou abîmées. 4. Rogner, couper, tailler l’extrémité d’une chose.
verb: 1. Variante de rafraîchir.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rafraîchir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rafraîchissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rafraîchi participle past
- rafraîchis first-person indicative present
- rafraîchit indicative present singular
- rafraîchissons first-person indicative plural
- rafraîchissez indicative plural present
- rafraîchissent indicative plural present
- rafraîchissais first-person imperfect indicative
- rafraîchissait imperfect indicative singular
- rafraîchissions first-person imperfect indicative
- rafraîchissiez imperfect indicative plural
- rafraîchissaient imperfect indicative plural
- rafraîchîmes first-person historic indicative
- rafraîchîtes historic indicative past
- rafraichissant gerund participle present
- rafraichi participle past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rafraîchir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rafraîchir in French?
rafraîchir appears 2.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).