renfrogné
\ʁɑ̃.fʁɔ.ɲe\
The verdict
“renfrogné” is uncommon French (frequency #84,244 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,244
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contracté, plissé en signe de mécontentement, en parlant du visage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-renfrogne · renfrogné · French
renfrogné · rank #84,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,244
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renforcements
Nearest frequency peer: renforcements (-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 « renfrogné »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- remigration
remigration
15,761 corpus weight
- remonteraie…
remonteraient
15,760 corpus weight
- renforcemen…
renforcements
15,758 corpus weight
- renfrogné
renfrogné
15,757 corpus weight
- reportera
reportera
15,756 corpus weight
- reposter
reposter
15,755 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « renfrogné » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renfrogné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.fʁɔ.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « renfrogné » en français
Rare enough to double-check
renfrogné is uncommon French at frequency #84,244 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁɑ̃.fʁɔ.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Contracté, plissé en signe de mécontentement, en parlant du visage.".
renfrogné has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is renfrogné, spelled R-E-N-F-R-O-G-N-É.
Definition
- 1Contracté, plissé en signe de mécontentement, en parlant du visage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how renfrogné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il l’écouta d’un air assez renfrogné, mais il se dérida dès qu’il se trouva en face de Mme de Mazatlan.
un gentilhomme de belle taille et de haute mine, quoique au visage légèrement renfrogné, lequel causait avec deux personnes qui paraissaient l’écouter avec déférence.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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