refroidisseur

/\ʁə.fʁwa.di.sœʁ\/ adj

The verdict

“refroidisseur” is an uncommon French word, ranked #76,073 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.

#76,073
frequency rank, French
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Qui refroidit.

Key facts for refroidisseur
PropertyValue
Headwordrefroidisseur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁə.fʁwa.di.sœʁ\
Letters13
Frequency rank#76,073
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “refroidisseur” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). refroidisseur lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for refroidisseur is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.fʁwa.di.sœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #76,073 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui refroidit.".

No misspelling variants are generated for refroidisseur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is refroidisseur, spelled R-E-F-R-O-I-D-I-S-S-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui refroidit.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #76,073 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "refroidisseur"?
"refroidisseur" is spelled R-E-F-R-O-I-D-I-S-S-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.fʁwa.di.sœʁ\.
What does "refroidisseur" mean?
As an adjective, "refroidisseur" means: Qui refroidit.
How do you pronounce "refroidisseur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "refroidisseur" is \ʁə.fʁwa.di.sœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "refroidisseur" come from?
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Using “refroidisseur”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is R-E-F-R-O-I-D-I-S-S-E-U-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ʁə.fʁwa.di.sœʁ\ (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.