refaisait
\ʁə.fə.zɛ\
The verdict
“refaisait” is uncommon French (frequency #67,057 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,057
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refaisait · refaisait · French
refaisait · rank #67,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,057
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconstituées
Nearest frequency peer: reconstituées (-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 « refaisait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ramzy
Ramzy
32,949 corpus weight
- raza
raza
32,948 corpus weight
- reconstitué…
reconstituées
32,945 corpus weight
- refaisait
refaisait
32,944 corpus weight
- refourguer
refourguer
32,941 corpus weight
- rena
rena
32,939 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « refaisait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refaisait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fə.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « refaisait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
refaisait is uncommon French at frequency #67,057 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.fə.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refaire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for refaisait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is refaisait, spelled R-E-F-A-I-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how refaisait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durant ces réunions de comptoir, DuLaurier refaisait le monde de l’ouvrage, « crissait une claque dans la face » d’un ou deux politiciens, promettait que l’année prochaine, on s’agrandirait et embaucherait, puis laissait ses deux fils se moquer gentiment de la petite Honda qu’ils m’avaient rétrocédée : « Elle est cosy et y a de la place dedans, à conditio…
Maintenant, la nuit se refaisait impénétrable, mystérieuse, indifférente aussi au drame qu’elle couvrait de son manteau d’ombre…
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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