réfugié
\ʁe.fy.ʒje\
The verdict
“réfugié” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,939. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,939
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui a quitté son pays ou sa région pour fuir un danger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refugie · réfugié · French
réfugié · rank #10,939 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,939
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ruiner
Nearest frequency peer: ruiner (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “réfugié”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Roussillon
Roussillon
89,065 corpus weight
- RT
RT
89,064 corpus weight
- ruiner
ruiner
89,063 corpus weight
- réfugié
réfugié
89,062 corpus weight
- réhabilitat…
réhabilitation
89,061 corpus weight
- réussissent
réussissent
89,060 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “réfugié” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | réfugié |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.fy.ʒje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “réfugié” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around réfugié (IPA \ʁe.fy.ʒje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,939 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for réfugié, with forms such as "refugie", "rféugié", and "rréfugié". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "refuse", "réunie", "Reggie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is réfugié, spelled R-É-F-U-G-I-É.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a quitté son pays ou sa région pour fuir un danger.
- 2Calviniste que la Révocation de l’Édit de Nantes fit sortir de France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how réfugié appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
16 mai, 10 heures. — Une section dont l'effectif est au complet, vient de quitter par ordre du commandement un secteur menacé et se dirige vers l'Aisne par la route de Terron-les-Poix, vers un probable point de ralliement. Les hommes marchent un par un derrière leur chef, au milieu des colonnes interminables des réfugiés.
Les États signataires s’engagent à ne pas refouler un réfugié et lui accorder un asile provisoire en attendant de trouver un État disposé à le recevoir.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- refugie
- rféugié
- rréfugié
- réffugié
- réfguié
- réfuggié
- réfugéi
- réfuigé
- réufgié
- érfugié
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of réfugié - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "réfugié", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "réfugié" maps to 11 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "refuse". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,939 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "R" letter cohort. R–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.