refroidir
\ʁə.fʁwa.diʁ\
The verdict
“refroidir” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,739. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,739
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre froid.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refroidir · refroidir · French
refroidir · rank #15,739 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,739
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rectangulaire
Nearest frequency peer: rectangulaire (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « refroidir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rebours
rebours
84,265 corpus weight
- recréer
recréer
84,264 corpus weight
- rectangulai…
rectangulaire
84,263 corpus weight
- refroidir
refroidir
84,262 corpus weight
- reliefs
reliefs
84,261 corpus weight
- remerciemen…
remerciements
84,260 corpus weight
What this shows « refroidir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refroidir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fʁwa.diʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « refroidir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around refroidir (IPA \ʁə.fʁwa.diʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,739 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for refroidir, with forms such as "erfroidir", "reffroidir", and "reforidir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "refroidit", "refroidis", "refroidi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is refroidir, spelled R-E-F-R-O-I-D-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre froid.
- 2Prendre froid.
- 3Diminuer l’ardeur, l’activité, etc.
- 4Tuer.
- 5Devenir froid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how refroidir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le blé pulvérisé entre les meules, ou la boulange, s’échauffe sous l’action des meules, et il est essentiel de le refroidir le plus rapidement possible.
Le vent, la pluie a refroidi l’air.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erfroidir
- reffroidir
- reforidir
- refriodir
- refrodiir
- refroiddir
- refroidirr
- refroidri
- refroiidr
- refrroidir
- rerfoidir
- rferoidir
- rrefroidir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refroidir - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "refroidir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).