afdwalen
\nl\
The verdict
“afdwalen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être aberrant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afdwalen · afdwalen · French
afdwalen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afdwalen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « afdwalen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
afdwalen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \nl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for afdwalen, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is afdwalen, spelled A-F-D-W-A-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1Être aberrant.
- 2Dévier, diverger, s’écarter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how afdwalen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hij is van zijn onderwerp afgedwaald.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.