refonte
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,895
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
refonte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de remettre à la fonte, en parlant spécialement des monnaies dont on fait de nouvelles espèces. Pronounced \ʁə.fɔ̃t\. Often confused with remote and réponse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refonte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.fɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for refonte is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.fɔ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,895 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for refonte, with forms such as "erfonte", "reffonte", and "refnote". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "remote", "réponse", "remonte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is refonte, spelled R-E-F-O-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de remettre à la fonte, en parlant spécialement des monnaies dont on fait de nouvelles espèces.
- 2Réfection de la forme, de l’ordre, en parlant d’un ouvrage de l’esprit, d’une loi, etc.
- 3Action de relooker un site Internet.
- 4Opération consistant à refaire systématiquement la rédaction d’une carte, en modifiant éventuellement les modes d’expression ou de représentation et qui s’accompagne généralement d’une révision cartographique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erfonte,reffonte,refnote,refonet,refonnte,refontte,refotne,reofnte,rfeonte,rrefonte
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Misspelling Variants of "refonte"
Frequency rank: #13,895 in French
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