affabilité
French, noun/a.fa.bi.li.te/
affabilité is spelled A-F-F-A-B-I-L-I-T-É (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affabilité is a French feminine noun meaning “affability” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de celui qui reçoit, qui écoute et entretient avec bienveillance ceux qui s'adressent à lui”.
What does affabilité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineaffability
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité de celui qui reçoit, qui écoute et entretient avec bienveillance ceux qui s'adressent à lui.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of affabilité
- affabilités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affabilité?
- /a.fa.bi.li.te/
- \a.fa.bi.li.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to affabilité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is affabilité in French?
affabilité appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).