afférent
\a.fe.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“afférent” is uncommon French (frequency #68,780 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,780
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afferent · afférent · French
afférent · rank #68,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,780
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affolent
Nearest frequency peer: affolent (-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 « afférent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affairent
affairent
31,224 corpus weight
- affamées
affamées
31,223 corpus weight
- affolent
affolent
31,222 corpus weight
- afférent
afférent
31,221 corpus weight
- Afrika
Afrika
31,220 corpus weight
- Agni
Agni
31,219 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « afférent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afférent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fe.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « afférent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
afférent is uncommon French at frequency #68,780 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.fe.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for afférent, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 afférent, spelled A-F-F-É-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à.
- 2Qualifie la part qui revient à chacun des intéressés dans un objet indivis ou dans un partage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afférent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Prussiens étant allés à Flaignes-les-Oliviers pour toucher les deux premiers douzièmes de la contribution imposée à cette commune, les maires de Prez et de La Cerleau crurent bien faire en allant à Flaignes pour payer les sommes afférentes à leurs communes; […].
Les États Parties procèdent à l’enregistrement des propriétaires et des commerçants d’armes de petit calibre se trouvant sur leurs territoires respectifs et maintiennent une base de données électronique nationale y afférente.
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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