rafraîchis
\ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi\
The verdict
“rafraîchis” is uncommon French (frequency #83,302 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,302
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de rafraîchir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rafraichis · rafraîchis · French
rafraîchis · rank #83,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,302
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radiées
Nearest frequency peer: radiées (-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 « rafraîchis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raccommoder
raccommoder
16,702 corpus weight
- racialiste
racialiste
16,701 corpus weight
- radiées
radiées
16,700 corpus weight
- rafraîchis
rafraîchis
16,699 corpus weight
- raisonnant
raisonnant
16,698 corpus weight
- randonner
randonner
16,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rafraîchis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rafraîchis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rafraîchis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rafraîchis is uncommon French at frequency #83,302 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rafraîchis, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 rafraîchis, spelled R-A-F-R-A-Î-C-H-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de rafraîchir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de rafraîchir.
- 3Première personne du singulier du passé simple de rafraîchir.
- 4Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de rafraîchir.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de rafraîchir.
- 6Masculin pluriel du participe passé 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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