affaisser
\a.fe.se\
The verdict
“affaisser” is uncommon French (frequency #85,440 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,440
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire ployer sous un faix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affaisser · affaisser · French
affaisser · rank #85,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,440
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adoucis
Nearest frequency peer: adoucis (-2 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 « affaisser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adjoignant
adjoignant
14,565 corpus weight
- adjugés
adjugés
14,564 corpus weight
- adoucis
adoucis
14,563 corpus weight
- affaisser
affaisser
14,561 corpus weight
- AGP
AGP
14,559 corpus weight
- agrémentent
agrémentent
14,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affaisser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affaisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fe.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affaisser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affaisser is uncommon French at frequency #85,440 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fe.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for affaisser, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 affaisser, spelled A-F-F-A-I-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire ployer sous un faix.
- 2Se courber, se tasser, se ployer.
- 3S’écrouler, s’abattre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affaisser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les grandes pluies affaissent les terres.
Le grand âge n’a point affaissé son esprit.
This word in other languages
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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