réfracter
French, verb/ʁe.fʁak.te/
réfracter is spelled R-É-F-R-A-C-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réfracter is a French verb meaning “to refract” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dévier un rayon lumineux”.
What does réfracter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to refract
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dévier un rayon lumineux. 2. Ce verbe s'emploie aussi à la forme réfléchie :
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of réfracter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- réfractant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- réfracté participle past
- réfracte first-person indicative present
- réfractes indicative present second-person
- réfractons first-person indicative plural
- réfractez indicative plural present
- réfractent indicative plural present
- réfractais first-person imperfect indicative
- réfractait imperfect indicative singular
- réfractions first-person imperfect indicative
- réfractiez imperfect indicative plural
- réfractaient imperfect indicative plural
- réfractai first-person historic indicative
- réfractas historic indicative past
- réfracta historic indicative past
- réfractâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce réfracter?
- /ʁe.fʁak.te/
- \ʁe.fʁak.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to réfracter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is réfracter in French?
réfracter appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).