refaisant
\ʁə.fə.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“refaisant” is uncommon French (frequency #77,856 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,856
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de refaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refaisant · refaisant · French
refaisant · rank #77,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,856
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redoutez
Nearest frequency peer: redoutez (-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 « refaisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recueillera
recueillera
22,148 corpus weight
- reculez
reculez
22,147 corpus weight
- redoutez
redoutez
22,146 corpus weight
- refaisant
refaisant
22,145 corpus weight
- regrettais
regrettais
22,144 corpus weight
- reinette
reinette
22,143 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « refaisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refaisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fə.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « refaisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
refaisant is uncommon French at frequency #77,856 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.fə.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de refaire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for refaisant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is refaisant, spelled R-E-F-A-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de refaire.
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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