refusais
\ʁə.fy.zɛ\
The verdict
“refusais” is uncommon French (frequency #51,078 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,078
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refuser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refusais · refusais · French
refusais · rank #51,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,078
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recyclées
Nearest frequency peer: recyclées (-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 « refusais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ratons
ratons
48,927 corpus weight
- recyclées
recyclées
48,924 corpus weight
- refusais
refusais
48,923 corpus weight
- reign
reign
48,921 corpus weight
- relationship
relationship
48,920 corpus weight
- renforcera
renforcera
48,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « refusais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refusais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fy.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « refusais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
refusais is uncommon French at frequency #51,078 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.fy.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
refusais has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 refusais, spelled R-E-F-U-S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refuser.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refuser.
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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