rafraîchissement

/\ʁa.fʁe.ʃis.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Frequency Rank

#41,482

in French word usage

Misspellings

24

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

rafraîchissement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de rendre plus frais ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \ʁa.fʁe.ʃis.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for rafraîchissement
PropertyValue
Headwordrafraîchissement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.fʁe.ʃis.mɑ̃\
Letters16
Frequency rank#41,482
Misspellings tracked24
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rafraîchissement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rafraîchissement is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.fʁe.ʃis.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,482 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 24 documented wrong-spelling variants for rafraîchissement, with forms such as "arfraîchissement", "rafarîchissement", and "raffraîchissement". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rafraîchissement, spelled R-A-F-R-A-Î-C-H-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de rendre plus frais ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Action de remettre un objet dans son état de fraîcheur primitif.
  3. 3
    Boissons fraîches, fruits, mets, que l’on sert dans un bal, au cours d’une réception, ou que l’on offre en dehors des repas.
  4. 4
    Taux de rafraîchissement. Fréquence de balayage vertical définie par le nombre d’images s’affichant sur l’écran par seconde.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arfraîchissement,rafarîchissement,raffraîchissement,rafracîhissement,rafraichissement,rafraîcchissement,rafraîchhissement,rafraîchisement,rafraîchisesment,rafraîchisseemnt,rafraîchissemennt,rafraîchissementt,rafraîchissemetn,rafraîchissemment,rafraîchissemnet,rafraîchissmeent,rafraîchsisement,rafraîcihssement,rafraîhcissement,rafrraîchissement,rafrîachissement,rarfaîchissement,rfaraîchissement,rrafraîchissement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rafraîchissement

Misspelling Variants of "rafraîchissement"

arfraîchissement16rafarîchissement16raffraîchissement17rafracîhissement16rafraichissement16rafraîcchissement17rafraîchhissement17rafraîchisement15
Misspelling Variants of "rafraîchissement"

Frequency rank: #41,482 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rafraîchissement"?
"rafraîchissement" is spelled R-A-F-R-A-Î-C-H-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.fʁe.ʃis.mɑ̃\.
What does "rafraîchissement" mean?
As a noun, "rafraîchissement" means: Action de rendre plus frais ou résultat de cette action.
What are common misspellings of "rafraîchissement"?
Common misspellings include "arfraîchissement", "rafarîchissement", "raffraîchissement", "rafracîhissement", "rafraichissement". The correct spelling is "rafraîchissement".
How do you pronounce "rafraîchissement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rafraîchissement" is \ʁa.fʁe.ʃis.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rafraîchissement" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.