raréfient
\ʁa.ʁe.fi\
The verdict
“raréfient” is uncommon French (frequency #84,223 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,223
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de raréfier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rarefient · raréfient · French
raréfient · rank #84,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,223
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rapetisser
Nearest frequency peer: rapetisser (-2 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 « raréfient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rampage
rampage
15,782 corpus weight
- ramus
ramus
15,781 corpus weight
- rapetisser
rapetisser
15,780 corpus weight
- raréfient
raréfient
15,778 corpus weight
- rattrapa
rattrapa
15,775 corpus weight
- recap
recap
15,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raréfient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raréfient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.ʁe.fi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raréfient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raréfient is uncommon French at frequency #84,223 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.ʁe.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for raréfient, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is raréfient, spelled R-A-R-É-F-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de raréfier.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de raréfier.
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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