refourguer
\ʁə.fuʁ.ɡe\
The verdict
“refourguer” is an uncommon French word, ranked #67,060 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #67,060
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Donner ou vendre un objet ou un service de valeur douteuse, que l’on a obtenu frauduleusement, dont on n’a plus besoin ou dont on ne veut pas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refourguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fuʁ.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “refourguer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for refourguer is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.fuʁ.ɡe\. Corpus data places it at rank #67,060 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Donner ou vendre un objet ou un service de valeur douteuse, que l’on a obtenu frauduleusement, dont on n’a plus besoin ou dont on ne veut pas.".
refourguer has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is refourguer, spelled R-E-F-O-U-R-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner ou vendre un objet ou un service de valeur douteuse, que l’on a obtenu frauduleusement, dont on n’a plus besoin ou dont on ne veut pas.
This word in other languages
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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Using “refourguer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-F-O-U-R-G-U-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.fuʁ.ɡe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.