affectionnait
\a.fɛk.sjɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“affectionnait” is uncommon French (frequency #74,526 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,526
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe affectionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affectionnait · affectionnait · French
affectionnait · rank #74,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,526
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affidés
Nearest frequency peer: affidés (+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 « affectionnait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- actors
actors
25,479 corpus weight
- Adalbert
Adalbert
25,478 corpus weight
- addictifs
addictifs
25,477 corpus weight
- affectionna…
affectionnait
25,475 corpus weight
- affidés
affidés
25,474 corpus weight
- ajouterons
ajouterons
25,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affectionnait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affectionnait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fɛk.sjɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #74,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affectionnait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affectionnait is uncommon French at frequency #74,526 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fɛk.sjɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe affectionner.".
affectionnait has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is affectionnait, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-I-O-N-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe affectionner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affectionnait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il attira une feuille de papier pot — il affectionnait ce format en raison de son caractère de gravité administrative, prétendait-il — et commença à tracer des formules, selon une méthode qui lui était chère.
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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