affronted
"affronted" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“affronted” is uncommon English (frequency #79,232 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,232
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Offended; having taken umbrage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-affronted · affronted · English
affronted · rank #79,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,232
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH adoptee
Nearest frequency peer: adoptee (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “affronted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Abbasid
Abbasid
20,773 corpus weight
- achingly
achingly
20,771 corpus weight
- adoptee
adoptee
20,770 corpus weight
- affronted
affronted
20,769 corpus weight
- Akhenaten
Akhenaten
20,765 corpus weight
- Alcala
Alcala
20,760 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “affronted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affronted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “affronted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
affronted is uncommon English at frequency #79,232 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for affronted in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is affronted, spelled A-F-F-R-O-N-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Offended; having taken umbrage.
- 2Synonym of affronté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affronted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I feel very, very affronted by this process which did not include us, at least in the interview stage so we could have the benefit of an exchange with these individuals.
[…] a majority (59 per cent) would be affronted by the Church taking a stand on parliamentary legislation; and Poles would be even more affronted (81 per cent) by priests telling people how to vote.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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