afar
\a.faʁ\
The verdict
“afar” is uncommon French (frequency #68,776 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,776
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Afars.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afar · afar · French
afar · rank #68,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,776
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adressaient
Nearest frequency peer: adressaient (-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 « afar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- actionnée
actionnée
31,228 corpus weight
- adressaient
adressaient
31,226 corpus weight
- afar
afar
31,225 corpus weight
- affairent
affairent
31,224 corpus weight
- affamées
affamées
31,223 corpus weight
- affolent
affolent
31,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « afar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.faʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « afar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
afar is uncommon French at frequency #68,776 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.faʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for afar in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is afar, spelled A-F-A-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Afars.
- 2Relatif à la langue parlée par les Afars.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how afar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’augmentation des commerces tenus par les Yéménites va de pair avec la disparition des commerçants somalis et afars, ainsi qu’une « yéménisation » des modes de vie. La langue arabe progresse de plus en plus et les restaurants yéménites fleurissent en dehors des quartiers centraux.
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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