affamer
\a.fa.me\
The verdict
“affamer” is uncommon French (frequency #55,722 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,722
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réduire à la faim par la suppression des vivres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affamer · affamer · French
affamer · rank #55,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,722
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH afa
Nearest frequency peer: afa (-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 « affamer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- admettra
admettra
44,282 corpus weight
- adorateur
adorateur
44,281 corpus weight
- afa
afa
44,280 corpus weight
- affamer
affamer
44,279 corpus weight
- affichages
affichages
44,278 corpus weight
- affichaient
affichaient
44,277 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affamer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affamer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fa.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affamer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affamer is uncommon French at frequency #55,722 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fa.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for affamer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is affamer, spelled A-F-F-A-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Réduire à la faim par la suppression des vivres.
- 2Terminer une moulure par un arrêt arrondi, droit ou en biais, celle ci ne va donc pas jusqu'au mur ou au sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affamer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nul n'oserait contester que, depuis 1918, les spéculations sur les denrées alimentaires ont été générales et sans frein. Le public se doute bien un peu qu'on l’affame et que les hauts prix maintenus malgré toutes les tentatives sont factices. Mais qui accuser ?
Son gendre avait de plus en plus faim car il essayait de l'affamer jusqu'à la mort.
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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