af
\aːv\
The verdict
“af” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,405) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,405
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De. Note d’usage : la préposition est suivie du datif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-af · af · French
af · rank #14,405 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,405
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adepte
Nearest frequency peer: adepte (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « af »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- abrutis
abrutis
85,599 corpus weight
- acquéreur
acquéreur
85,598 corpus weight
- adepte
adepte
85,597 corpus weight
- af
af
85,596 corpus weight
- affluence
affluence
85,595 corpus weight
- allergique
allergique
85,593 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « af » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | af |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \aːv\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « af »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for af is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced \aːv\. Frequency #14,405 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for af in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is af, spelled A-F.
Definition
- 1De. Note d’usage : la préposition est suivie du datif.
- 2Par. Note d’usage : la préposition est suivie du datif.
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.