refondue
\ʁə.fɔ̃.dy\
The verdict
“refondue” is uncommon French (frequency #72,674 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,674
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de refondre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refondue · refondue · French
refondue · rank #72,674 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,674
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ree
Nearest frequency peer: ree (-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 « refondue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recombinais…
recombinaison
27,330 corpus weight
- ree
ree
27,328 corpus weight
- refondue
refondue
27,327 corpus weight
- rejettera
rejettera
27,326 corpus weight
- rejointes
rejointes
27,325 corpus weight
- relise
relise
27,324 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « refondue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refondue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fɔ̃.dy\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « refondue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
refondue is uncommon French at frequency #72,674 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.fɔ̃.dy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de refondre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for refondue, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 refondue, spelled R-E-F-O-N-D-U-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de refondre.
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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