réfugié
French, noun
réfugié is spelled R-É-F-U-G-I-É (7 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written French, the 10,846th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réfugié is a French masculine noun meaning “refugee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of réfugier. With an accent, réfugie is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui a quitté son pays ou sa région pour fuir un danger”.
What does réfugié mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerefugee
verb
- 1
past participle of réfugier
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui a quitté son pays ou sa région pour fuir un danger. 2. Calviniste que la Révocation de l’Édit de Nantes fit sortir de France.
adjective: 1. Qui a quitté son pays ou sa région pour fuir un danger.
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 réfugié
- réfugiés plural
- réfugiée feminine
- réfugiées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to réfugié
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is réfugié in French?
réfugié appears 5.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).