refoulées
\ʁə.fu.le\
The verdict
“refoulées” is uncommon French (frequency #69,370 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,370
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de refoulé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refoulees · refoulées · French
refoulées · rank #69,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,370
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH refroidissant
Nearest frequency peer: refroidissant (+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 « refoulées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reconductib…
reconductible
30,636 corpus weight
- reconstruit…
reconstruites
30,635 corpus weight
- rectrice
rectrice
30,633 corpus weight
- refoulées
refoulées
30,631 corpus weight
- refroidissa…
refroidissant
30,630 corpus weight
- regne
regne
30,628 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « refoulées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refoulées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.fu.le\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « refoulées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
refoulées is uncommon French at frequency #69,370 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.fu.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de refoulé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for refoulées, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is refoulées, spelled R-E-F-O-U-L-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de refoulé.
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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