refilé

\ʁə.fi.le\

/\ʁə.fi.le\/ verb

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The verdict

“refilé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,239. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,239
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de refiler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-refile · refilé · French

refilé · rank #35,239 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,239
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH recyclables

Nearest frequency peer: recyclables (-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 « refilé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « refilé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

refilé vs reine
50% similar
refilé vs réglé
50% similar
refilé vs relié
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for refilé
PropertyValue
Headwordrefilé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.fi.le\
Letters6
Frequency rank#35,239
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « refilé »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).refilése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « recyclables » (#35,238), « refusées » (#35,240), « rebâtir » (#35,236). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « refilé » est au #35,239. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around refilé (IPA \ʁə.fi.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,239 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de refiler.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for refilé, with forms such as "erfilé", "reffilé", and "refile". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "reine", "réglé", "relié", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is refilé, spelled R-E-F-I-L-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier de refiler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how refilé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il a rechanté le deuxième acte intégral, je lui ai refilé du rab.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erfilé
  • reffilé
  • refile
  • refillé
  • refiél
  • reflié
  • reiflé
  • rfeilé
  • rrefilé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refilé - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

erfilé2reffilé1refile1refillé1refiél2reflié2reiflé2rfeilé2
Edit distance from "refilé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "refilé"?
"refilé" is spelled R-E-F-I-L-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.fi.le\.
What does "refilé" mean?
As a verb, "refilé" means: Participe passé masculin singulier de refiler.
What words are commonly confused with "refilé"?
"refilé" is commonly confused with "reine", "réglé", "relié". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "refilé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "refilé" is \ʁə.fi.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "refilé" come from?
"refilé" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "refilé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list