affaler

/\a.fa.le\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#88,282

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

affaler is aFrenchverb. It means: Abaisser un cordage pour l’aider à courir dans sa poulie ou dans son conduit et à descendre plus facilement. Pronounced \a.fa.le\.

Key facts for affaler
PropertyValue
Headwordaffaler
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.fa.le\
Letters7
Frequency rank#88,282
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of affaler in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for affaler is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.fa.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #88,282 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for affaler in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 affaler, spelled A-F-F-A-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Abaisser un cordage pour l’aider à courir dans sa poulie ou dans son conduit et à descendre plus facilement.
  2. 2
    Abaisser une voile.
  3. 3
    Pousser un bâtiment, un navire vers la côte, en parlant du vent, et le mettre en danger d’échouer.
  4. 4
    Se laisser glisser le long d’un cordage, etc., pour descendre plus vite.
  5. 5
    Se laisser tomber, se vautrer ou, simplement, tomber.
  6. 6
    Réduire fortement.

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Frequency rank: #88,282 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "affaler"?
"affaler" is spelled A-F-F-A-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fa.le\.
What does "affaler" mean?
As a verb, "affaler" means: Abaisser un cordage pour l’aider à courir dans sa poulie ou dans son conduit et à descendre plus facilement.
How do you pronounce "affaler"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affaler" is \a.fa.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affaler" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.