refondre
French, verb/ʁə.fɔ̃dʁ/
refondre is spelled R-E-F-O-N-D-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 60,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Refondre is a French verb meaning “to remelt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre à la fonte une seconde fois, fondre de nouveau”.
What does refondre mean in English?
verb
- 1
to remelt
- 2
to resmelt
- 3
to remake from scratch
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre à la fonte une seconde fois, fondre de nouveau. 2. Donner une meilleure forme à un ouvrage de l’esprit, une loi, etc., qui contient de bonnes choses, mais qui a tout de même besoin de travail.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of refondre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- refondant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- refondu participle past
- refonds first-person indicative present
- refond indicative present singular
- refondons first-person indicative plural
- refondez indicative plural present
- refondent indicative plural present
- refondais first-person imperfect indicative
- refondait imperfect indicative singular
- refondions first-person imperfect indicative
- refondiez imperfect indicative plural
- refondaient imperfect indicative plural
- refondis first-person historic indicative
- refondit historic indicative past
- refondîmes first-person historic indicative
- refondîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce refondre?
- /ʁə.fɔ̃dʁ/
- \ʁə.fɔ̃dʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is refondre in French?
refondre appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).