refilent
\ʁə.fil\
The verdict
“refilent” is uncommon French (frequency #97,353 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,353
- 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 refiler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refilent · refilent · French
refilent · rank #97,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,353
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH refermait
Nearest frequency peer: refermait (-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 « refilent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- redonnerait
redonnerait
2,651 corpus weight
- redoutées
redoutées
2,650 corpus weight
- refermait
refermait
2,649 corpus weight
- refilent
refilent
2,648 corpus weight
- reforment
reforment
2,647 corpus weight
- regar
regar
2,646 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « refilent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refilent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « refilent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
refilent is uncommon French at frequency #97,353 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.fil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for refilent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 refilent, spelled R-E-F-I-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de refiler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de refiler.
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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