affectionnent
\a.fɛk.sjɔn\
The verdict
“affectionnent” is uncommon French (frequency #70,359 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,359
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe affectionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affectionnent · affectionnent · French
affectionnent · rank #70,359 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,359
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH administrant
Nearest frequency peer: administrant (-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 « affectionnent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aconit
aconit
29,645 corpus weight
- Acq
Acq
29,644 corpus weight
- administrant
administrant
29,643 corpus weight
- affectionne…
affectionnent
29,642 corpus weight
- affûts
affûts
29,641 corpus weight
- afi
afi
29,640 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affectionnent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affectionnent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fɛk.sjɔn\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #70,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affectionnent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affectionnent is uncommon French at frequency #70,359 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fɛk.sjɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for affectionnent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is affectionnent, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-I-O-N-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe affectionner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe affectionner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affectionnent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour Wilfrid, une heure passée près de Séraphîta ressemblait souvent au songe qu’affectionnent les thériakis, et où chaque papille nerveuse devient le centre d'une jouissance rayonnante.
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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