affaler
\a.fa.le\
The verdict
“affaler” is uncommon French (frequency #88,282 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,282
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abaisser un cordage pour l’aider à courir dans sa poulie ou dans son conduit et à descendre plus facilement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affaler · affaler · French
affaler · rank #88,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,282
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Aesa
Nearest frequency peer: Aesa (-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 « affaler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adoubement
adoubement
11,722 corpus weight
- Aesa
Aesa
11,720 corpus weight
- affaler
affaler
11,719 corpus weight
- affecteront
affecteront
11,718 corpus weight
- affinent
affinent
11,717 corpus weight
- affolez
affolez
11,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affaler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affaler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fa.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affaler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affaler is uncommon French at frequency #88,282 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fa.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
affaler has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is affaler, spelled A-F-F-A-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Abaisser un cordage pour l’aider à courir dans sa poulie ou dans son conduit et à descendre plus facilement.
- 2Abaisser une voile.
- 3Pousser un bâtiment, un navire vers la côte, en parlant du vent, et le mettre en danger d’échouer.
- 4Se laisser glisser le long d’un cordage, etc., pour descendre plus vite.
- 5Se laisser tomber, se vautrer ou, simplement, tomber.
- 6Réduire fortement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affaler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Affaler une manœuvre.
L’équipage affala la misaine.
Antonyms
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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