affaire glacée
\a.fɛʁ ɡla.se\
The verdict
“affaire glacée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Affaire pénale non élucidée mais non prescrite, qui est susceptible d’être réexaminée après un long délai à la lumière d’éléments nouveaux apportés notamment par le progrès des moyens d’analyse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affaire glacée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fɛʁ ɡla.se\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “affaire glacée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for affaire glacée is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.fɛʁ ɡla.se\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Affaire pénale non élucidée mais non prescrite, qui est susceptible d’être réexaminée après un long délai à la lumière d’éléments nouveaux apportés notamment par le progrès des moyens d’analyse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for affaire glacée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is affaire glacée, spelled A-F-F-A-I-R-E- -G-L-A-C-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Affaire pénale non élucidée mais non prescrite, qui est susceptible d’être réexaminée après un long délai à la lumière d’éléments nouveaux apportés notamment par le progrès des moyens d’analyse.
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Using “affaire glacée”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-F-F-A-I-R-E- -G-L-A-C-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.fɛʁ ɡla.se\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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