affalé
\a.fa.le\
The verdict
“affalé” is uncommon French (frequency #65,665 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,665
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un navire qui est poussé à la côte sans qu’il puisse s’en éloigner, étant donné sa position par rapport à cette côte et au vent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affale · affalé · French
affalé · rank #65,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,665
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aer
Nearest frequency peer: aer (-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 « affalé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adventices
adventices
34,339 corpus weight
- aedes
aedes
34,338 corpus weight
- aer
aer
34,337 corpus weight
- affalé
affalé
34,336 corpus weight
- afraid
afraid
34,335 corpus weight
- agios
agios
34,334 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affalé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affalé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fa.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affalé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affalé is uncommon French at frequency #65,665 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.fa.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
affalé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is affalé, spelled A-F-F-A-L-É.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un navire qui est poussé à la côte sans qu’il puisse s’en éloigner, étant donné sa position par rapport à cette côte et au vent.
- 2Assis, allongé, couché d’une manière totalement relâchée, négligée, détendue en parlant d’une personne ou d’un animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affalé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle longea jusqu’à l’étrave le navire affalé.
Vous m’avez dit : « Cette dame, peinte par Siccardi, ressemble à la mère d’André Chénier. » Je vous ai répondu : « C’est l’aïeule de mon mari. Comment était la mère d’André Chénier ? » Et vous avez dit : « On a son portrait : une Levantine affalée. »
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).