AfD
\aːʔɛfˈdeː\
The verdict
“AfD” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #29,215 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #29,215
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative pour l'Allemagne, parti politique nationaliste et eurosceptique allemand d’extrême droite.
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) |
Where “AfD” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for AfD is 3 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aːʔɛfˈdeː\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,215 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “AfD”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-F-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \aːʔɛfˈdeː\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “au” - see the side-by-side comparison. AfD vs au
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.