refaire
French, verb/ʁə.fɛʁ/
refaire is spelled R-E-F-A-I-R-E (7 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written French, the 3,324th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Refaire is a French verb meaning “to redo, to do over, to do again, to repeat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire de nouveau ce qu’on a déjà fait”.
What does refaire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to redo, to do over, to do again, to repeat
Si c'était à refaire, que ferais-tu différemment ?
- 2
to remake, to recreate, to make more of, to reproduce
- 3
to restore, to renovate, to make (like) brand new
- 4
to get reaccustomed to
- 5
to freshen up, to recuperate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire de nouveau ce qu’on a déjà fait. 2. Faire une chose pour la première fois, mais à l’imitation de quelqu’un qui l’a déjà faite. 3. Réparer, raccommoder, rajuster une chose ruinée ou abîmée. 4. Recommencer.
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 refaire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- refaisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- refait participle past
- refais first-person indicative present
- refaisons first-person indicative plural
- refaites indicative plural present
- refont indicative plural present
- refaisais first-person imperfect indicative
- refaisait imperfect indicative singular
- refaisions first-person imperfect indicative
- refaisiez imperfect indicative plural
- refaisaient imperfect indicative plural
- refis first-person historic indicative
- refit historic indicative past
- refîmes first-person historic indicative
- refîtes historic indicative past
- refirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce refaire?
- /ʁə.fɛʁ/
- \ʁə.fɛʁ\
- [ʁə.fɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to refaire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is refaire in French?
refaire appears 23 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).