refonte

/\ʁə.fɔ̃t\/ noun

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.

Key facts for refonte
PropertyValue
Headwordrefonte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.fɔ̃t\
Letters7
Frequency rank#13,895
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of refonte in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Action de remettre à la fonte, en parlant spécialement des monnaies dont on fait de nouvelles espèces.
  2. 2
    Réfection de la forme, de l’ordre, en parlant d’un ouvrage de l’esprit, d’une loi, etc.
  3. 3
    Action de relooker un site Internet.
  4. 4
    Opération 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.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erfonte,reffonte,refnote,refonet,refonnte,refontte,refotne,reofnte,rfeonte,rrefonte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for refonte

Misspelling Variants of "refonte"

erfonte7reffonte8refnote7refonet7refonnte8refontte8refotne7reofnte7
Misspelling Variants of "refonte"

Frequency rank: #13,895 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "refonte"?
"refonte" is spelled R-E-F-O-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.fɔ̃t\.
What does "refonte" mean?
As a noun, "refonte" means: Action de remettre à la fonte, en parlant spécialement des monnaies dont on fait de nouvelles espèces.
What words are commonly confused with "refonte"?
"refonte" is commonly confused with "remote", "réponse", "remonte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "refonte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "refonte" is \ʁə.fɔ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "refonte" come from?
"refonte" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.