afghani
/æfˈɡɑːni/
"afghani" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“afghani” is uncommon English (frequency #53,986 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,986
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The monetary currency of Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul.
Corpus desk
Index EN-afghani · afghani · English
afghani · rank #53,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,986
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Aditi
Nearest frequency peer: Aditi (-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 “afghani”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- acyl
acyl
46,018 corpus weight
- Adcock
Adcock
46,017 corpus weight
- Aditi
Aditi
46,016 corpus weight
- afghani
afghani
46,015 corpus weight
- Agricola
Agricola
46,013 corpus weight
- Agustin
Agustin
46,012 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “afghani” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afghani |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /æfˈɡɑːni/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “afghani” in English
Rare enough to double-check
afghani is uncommon English at frequency #53,986 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /æfˈɡɑːni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The monetary currency of Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul.".
No misspelling variants are generated for afghani in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Classical Persian افغانی (afġānī), derivative of افغان (afġān). The correct English form is afghani, spelled A-F-G-H-A-N-I.
Definition
- 1The monetary currency of Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how afghani appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Laila hoped to have a thousand afghanis or more stowed away, half of which would go to the bus fare from Kabul to Peshawar.
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian افغانی (afġānī), derivative of افغان (afġān).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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