refusée

\ʁə.fy.ze\

/\ʁə.fy.ze\/ adj

The verdict

“refusée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,896. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,896
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de refusé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-refusee · refusée · French

refusée · rank #13,896 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,896
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH refonte

Nearest frequency peer: refonte (-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 « refusée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « refusée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

refusée vs refuser
71% similar
refusée vs réputée
57% similar
refusée vs réfuter
43% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for refusée
PropertyValue
Headwordrefusée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁə.fy.ze\
Letters7
Frequency rank#13,896
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « refusée »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).refuséese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « refonte » (#13,895), « reliques » (#13,897), « redevenir » (#13,894). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « refusée » est au #13,896. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around refusée (IPA \ʁə.fy.ze\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,896 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de refusé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for refusée, with forms such as "erfusée", "reffusée", and "refsuée". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "refuser", "réputée", "réfuter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is refusée, spelled R-E-F-U-S-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de refusé.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erfusée
  • reffusée
  • refsuée
  • refusee
  • refuseé
  • refussée
  • refuése
  • reufsée
  • rfeusée
  • rrefusée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refusée - 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.

erfusée2reffusée1refsuée2refusee1refuseé2refussée1refuése2reufsée2
Edit distance from "refusée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "refusée"?
"refusée" is spelled R-E-F-U-S-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.fy.ze\.
What does "refusée" mean?
As an adjective, "refusée" means: Féminin singulier de refusé.
What words are commonly confused with "refusée"?
"refusée" is commonly confused with "refuser", "réputée", "réfuter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "refusée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "refusée" is \ʁə.fy.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "refusée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "refusée", 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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list