AfD
\aːʔɛfˈdeː\
The verdict
“AfD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,215) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,215
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative pour l'Allemagne, parti politique nationaliste et eurosceptique allemand d’extrême droite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afd · AfD · French
AfD · rank #29,215 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,215
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adoptive
Nearest frequency peer: adoptive (-2 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 « AfD »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- accablant
accablant
70,790 corpus weight
- achèvent
achèvent
70,789 corpus weight
- adoptive
adoptive
70,788 corpus weight
- AfD
AfD
70,786 corpus weight
- affluents
affluents
70,784 corpus weight
- amenées
amenées
70,782 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « AfD » 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 | AfD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aːʔɛfˈdeː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « AfD »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AfD is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \aːʔɛfˈdeː\. Frequency #29,215 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Alternative pour l'Allemagne, parti politique nationaliste et eurosceptique allemand d’extrême droite.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for AfD, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is AfD, spelled A-F-D.
Definition
- 1Alternative pour l'Allemagne, parti politique nationaliste et eurosceptique allemand d’extrême droite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how AfD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Insgeheim dürften einige bei der bayerischen AfD enttäuscht sein, als die ersten Zahlen über die Monitore flimmern: 11 Prozent, da hat man sich mehr erhofft.
Nach den Großdemonstrationen gegen die AfD am Wochenende ist deren Co-Chef Tino Chrupalla bei "Maischberger" zu Gast. Dort verstrickt er sich beim Versuch, die verfolgte Unschuld zu geben, in zahlreiche Widersprüche.
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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