affaisse
\a.fɛs\
The verdict
“affaisse” is an uncommon French word, ranked #69,570 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #69,570
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affaisser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affaisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “affaisse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for affaisse is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.fɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #69,570 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
affaisse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is affaisse, spelled A-F-F-A-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affaisser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affaisser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe affaisser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe affaisser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe affaisser.
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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Using “affaisse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-F-F-A-I-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.fɛs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.