renchérir
\ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“renchérir” is uncommon French (frequency #63,299 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,299
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre plus cher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rencherir · renchérir · French
renchérir · rank #63,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,299
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renfermée
Nearest frequency peer: renfermée (+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 « renchérir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- relâchées
relâchées
36,705 corpus weight
- remettais
remettais
36,704 corpus weight
- renchérir
renchérir
36,702 corpus weight
- renfermée
renfermée
36,701 corpus weight
- renvoyons
renvoyons
36,700 corpus weight
- reposante
reposante
36,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « renchérir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renchérir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « renchérir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
renchérir is uncommon French at frequency #63,299 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for renchérir, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is renchérir, spelled R-E-N-C-H-É-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre plus cher.
- 2Devenir plus cher.
- 3Faire une enchère supérieure.
- 4Aller plus loin en paroles, en action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how renchérir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous aurez alors les terres pour rien, comme les a eues Rigou ; tandis que si vous les mettez dans la gueule des bourgeois, les bourgeois vous les recracheront bien amaigries et renchéries, vous travaillerez pour eux, comme tous ceux qui travaillent pour Rigou.
Les options sont un outil important de la politique de prix. Leur seul risque est de rendre l'offre trop complexe et peu lisible, et de renchérir excessivement le coût si elles sont trop nombreuses.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).