refermer
\ʁə.fɛʁ.me\
The verdict
“refermer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,546
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fermer de nouveau ; fermer ce qui était ouvert.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refermer · refermer · French
refermer · rank #20,546 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,546
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rayures
Nearest frequency peer: rayures (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « refermer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- radioactivi…
radioactivité
79,458 corpus weight
- ranch
ranch
79,457 corpus weight
- rayures
rayures
79,456 corpus weight
- refermer
refermer
79,455 corpus weight
- relayer
relayer
79,454 corpus weight
- relèvement
relèvement
79,453 corpus weight
What this shows « refermer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refermer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fɛʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « refermer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around refermer (IPA \ʁə.fɛʁ.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,546 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for refermer, with forms such as "erfermer", "reefrmer", and "refemrer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "repérer", "réformé", "réserver", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 refermer, spelled R-E-F-E-R-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fermer de nouveau ; fermer ce qui était ouvert.
- 2Reprendre et unir les chairs de telle sorte qu’il n’y ait plus d’ouverture.
- 3Cicatriser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how refermer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Vieux rapiat ! – s’écria Bert, au moment où le secrétaire refermait la porte en s’en allant.
Elle tenta d’entraîner François et, comme celui-ci l'envoyait paître, elle l’abandonna, ouvrit la porte et la referma violemment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erfermer
- reefrmer
- refemrer
- referemr
- refermerr
- refermmer
- refermre
- referrmer
- reffermer
- refremer
- rfeermer
- rrefermer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refermer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "refermer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).