refonder
\ʁə.fɔ̃.de\
The verdict
“refonder” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,682. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,682
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner de nouvelles fondations à une entreprise, un pays, une ville...
Corpus desk
Index FR-refonder · refonder · French
refonder · rank #44,682 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,682
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reflétait
Nearest frequency peer: reflétait (-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 « refonder »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reflétait
reflétait
55,320 corpus weight
- refonder
refonder
55,319 corpus weight
- REL
REL
55,318 corpus weight
- relocalisat…
relocalisation
55,317 corpus weight
- rencontrais
rencontrais
55,316 corpus weight
- renommées
renommées
55,315 corpus weight
What this shows « refonder » 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 | refonder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fɔ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « refonder »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around refonder (IPA \ʁə.fɔ̃.de\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,682 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Donner de nouvelles fondations à une entreprise, un pays, une ville...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for refonder, with forms such as "erfonder", "reffonder", and "refnoder". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "refonte", "réponde", "remonter", 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 refonder, spelled R-E-F-O-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner de nouvelles fondations à une entreprise, un pays, une ville...
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how refonder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, plutôt que de défonder la pudeur ne faut-il pas la refonder comme étant la vertu capitale du bien-vivre personnel (privé ou intime plutôt) et ensemble (public), selon le double projet - ainsi retrouvé - de la sagesse personnelle et de la justice collective ?
Nous avons besoin d’une régulation internationale refondée sur la coopération et la réponse à la crise écologique, dans le cadre d'instances multilatérales et démocratiques, en rupture avec la mondialisation néolibérale et les tentatives hégémoniques des États les plus puissants.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erfonder
- reffonder
- refnoder
- refodner
- refondder
- refonderr
- refondre
- refonedr
- refonnder
- reofnder
- rfeonder
- rrefonder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refonder - 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.
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 "refonder", 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).