réfugient
\ʁe.fy.ʒi\
The verdict
“réfugient” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,981. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,981
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de réfugier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refugient · réfugient · French
réfugient · rank #40,981 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,981
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réduise
Nearest frequency peer: réduise (-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 « réfugient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ruhr
Ruhr
59,023 corpus weight
- ruinent
ruinent
59,022 corpus weight
- réduise
réduise
59,021 corpus weight
- réfugient
réfugient
59,020 corpus weight
- réglementées
réglementées
59,018 corpus weight
- répulsion
répulsion
59,017 corpus weight
What this shows « réfugient » 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 | réfugient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.fy.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « réfugient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around réfugient (IPA \ʁe.fy.ʒi\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,981 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for réfugient, with forms such as "refugient", "rféugient", and "rréfugient". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "réfugiés", "refusent", "réfugier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is réfugient, spelled R-É-F-U-G-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de réfugier.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de réfugier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how réfugient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les animaux qui nous occupent sont, pour la plupart, fixés au sol, aux rochers, surtout aux pierres anfractueuses, qu’on doit souvent briser avec le marteau de géologue pour les dénicher dans les cavités où ils se réfugient volontiers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- refugient
- rféugient
- rréfugient
- réffugient
- réfguient
- réfugeint
- réfuggient
- réfugiennt
- réfugientt
- réfugietn
- réfuginet
- réfuigent
- réufgient
- érfugient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of réfugient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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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 (14 here; floor ≥5).