renfermé

\ʁɑ.fɛʁ.me\

/\ʁɑ.fɛʁ.me\/ adj

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The verdict

“renfermé” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,529
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne participe pas à la vie sociale ; solitaire et replié sur soi.

Corpus desk

Index FR-renferme · renfermé · French

renfermé · rank #37,529 · 13 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,529
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH renchérit

Nearest frequency peer: renchérit (-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 « renfermé »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « renfermé » 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).

renfermé vs renforce
63% similar
renfermé vs renversé
75% similar
renfermé vs renfermer
78% similar

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

Key facts for renfermé
PropertyValue
Headwordrenfermé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁɑ.fɛʁ.me\
Letters8
Frequency rank#37,529
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « renfermé »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.renfermése place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « renchérit » (#37,528), « ries » (#37,530), « remboursables » (#37,527). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « renfermé » est au #37,529. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around renfermé (IPA \ʁɑ.fɛʁ.me\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,529 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui ne participe pas à la vie sociale ; solitaire et replié sur soi.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for renfermé, with forms such as "ernfermé", "refnermé", and "renefrmé". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "renforce", "renversé", "renfermer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is renfermé, spelled R-E-N-F-E-R-M-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui ne participe pas à la vie sociale ; solitaire et replié sur soi.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how renfermé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. — C’est un Breton. I sont renfermés…
  2. Les jeunes femmes rencontrées passent une grande partie de leur temps « libre » ou « personnel » (c'est-à-dire hors scolarité ou travail) à l'intérieur, dans les espaces privés, mais elles n’y sont pas pour autant seules ou isolées, renfermées ; elles passent du temps les unes chez les autres et dans les déplacements entre leurs domiciles respectifs.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ernfermé
  • refnermé
  • renefrmé
  • renfemré
  • renferme
  • renfermmé
  • renferrmé
  • renferém
  • renffermé
  • renfremé
  • rennfermé
  • rnefermé
  • rrenfermé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ernfermé2refnermé2renefrmé2renfemré2renferme1renfermmé1renferrmé1renferém2
Edit distance from "renfermé"

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 "renfermé"?
"renfermé" is spelled R-E-N-F-E-R-M-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɑ.fɛʁ.me\.
What does "renfermé" mean?
As an adjective, "renfermé" means: Qui ne participe pas à la vie sociale ; solitaire et replié sur soi.
What words are commonly confused with "renfermé"?
"renfermé" is commonly confused with "renforce", "renversé", "renfermer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "renfermé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "renfermé" is \ʁɑ.fɛʁ.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "renfermé" come from?
"renfermé" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "renfermé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

remarier#37,526rehaussé#37,522réglable#37,541reculées#37,515

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

relooking13 variantsrétrécit13 variantsRandolph13 variantsscolarisé13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list