refresh
\ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ\
The verdict
“refresh” is uncommon French (frequency #68,609 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,609
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rafraîchir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refresh · refresh · French
refresh · rank #68,609 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,609
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redécorer
Nearest frequency peer: redécorer (-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 « refresh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recueillait
recueillait
31,395 corpus weight
- redite
redite
31,394 corpus weight
- redécorer
redécorer
31,393 corpus weight
- refresh
refresh
31,392 corpus weight
- remarqueras
remarqueras
31,391 corpus weight
- remembrement
remembrement
31,390 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « refresh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refresh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « refresh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
refresh is uncommon French at frequency #68,609 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for refresh in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is refresh, spelled R-E-F-R-E-S-H.
Definition
- 1Rafraîchir.
- 2Renouveler.
- 3Actualiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how refresh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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