affairer
\a.fe.ʁe\
The verdict
“affairer” is uncommon French (frequency #98,702 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,702
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absorber par les affaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affairer · affairer · French
affairer · rank #98,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,702
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affliger
Nearest frequency peer: affliger (+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 « affairer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acute
acute
1,304 corpus weight
- adopterait
adopterait
1,303 corpus weight
- affairer
affairer
1,299 corpus weight
- affliger
affliger
1,298 corpus weight
- Afriques
Afriques
1,297 corpus weight
- aggraverait
aggraverait
1,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affairer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affairer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affairer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affairer is uncommon French at frequency #98,702 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fe.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for affairer, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is affairer, spelled A-F-F-A-I-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Absorber par les affaires.
- 2S’occuper activement ; s’empresser.
- 3S'informer, suivre les ragots et se mettre au courant de ce qui ne nous regarde pas.
- 4Informer, mettre au courant quelqu'un de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affairer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se laisser affairer par une chose, se laisser absorber par cette chose.
Eufrosinia raisonne comme Ivan, comme Staline. On dira qu'elle s’affaire cupidement pour elle et pour son parentage quand Ivan et Staline se dépensent héroïquement pour la nation. La fin justifie les moyens mais ce ne sont pas les mêmes fins.
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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