referment
\ʁə.fɛʁm\
The verdict
“referment” is uncommon French (frequency #57,551 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,551
- 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 refermer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-referment · referment · French
referment · rank #57,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,551
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redevenus
Nearest frequency peer: redevenus (-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 « referment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recoudre
recoudre
42,454 corpus weight
- recyclée
recyclée
42,452 corpus weight
- redevenus
redevenus
42,451 corpus weight
- referment
referment
42,450 corpus weight
- relevons
relevons
42,449 corpus weight
- remodelage
remodelage
42,447 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « referment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | referment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « referment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
referment is uncommon French at frequency #57,551 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.fɛʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for referment, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is referment, spelled R-E-F-E-R-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de refermer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de refermer.
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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