afe
\ˈa.fːe\
The verdict
“afe” is uncommon French (frequency #81,743 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,743
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du potentiel du verbe mont.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afe · afe · French
afe · rank #81,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,743
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adulée
Nearest frequency peer: adulée (-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 « afe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adorerait
adorerait
18,261 corpus weight
- adroite
adroite
18,260 corpus weight
- adulée
adulée
18,259 corpus weight
- afe
afe
18,258 corpus weight
- affairistes
affairistes
18,257 corpus weight
- affluaient
affluaient
18,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « afe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈa.fːe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #81,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « afe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
afe is uncommon French at frequency #81,743 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈa.fːe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du potentiel du verbe mont.".
afe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 afe, spelled A-F-E.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du potentiel du verbe mont.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how afe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Nemet hemañ ne sav ket diwar an dour. Kentocʼh ez afe d'an traoñ eget dʼan necʼh !
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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