refroidissant
\ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“refroidissant” is uncommon French (frequency #69,371 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,371
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui refroidit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refroidissant · refroidissant · French
refroidissant · rank #69,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,371
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH refoulées
Nearest frequency peer: refoulées (-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 « refroidissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- regroupera
regroupera
30,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « refroidissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refroidissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #69,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « refroidissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
refroidissant is uncommon French at frequency #69,371 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui refroidit.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for refroidissant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is refroidissant, spelled R-E-F-R-O-I-D-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui refroidit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how refroidissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] mais toutes les conditions, échauffantes ou refroidissantes, sont salubres dans certains pays, tandis que dans d’autres elles ne le sont pas : en effet, pour les pays situés dans un climat chaud, les conditions refroidissantes sont salubres et les conditions échauffantes ne le sont pas ; tandis que, pour les pays situés dans un climat froid, les condi…
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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