affermage
\a.fɛʁ.maʒ\
The verdict
“affermage” is uncommon French (frequency #97,630 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,630
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’affermer. Location d'un bien rural moyennant le paiement d'un fermage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affermage · affermage · French
affermage · rank #97,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,630
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affligeants
Nearest frequency peer: affligeants (+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 « affermage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- admires
admires
2,375 corpus weight
- adopt
adopt
2,374 corpus weight
- adoucissent
adoucissent
2,373 corpus weight
- affermage
affermage
2,371 corpus weight
- affligeants
affligeants
2,370 corpus weight
- aggiornamen…
aggiornamento
2,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affermage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affermage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fɛʁ.maʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affermage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affermage is uncommon French at frequency #97,630 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fɛʁ.maʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’affermer. Location d'un bien rural moyennant le paiement d'un fermage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for affermage, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is affermage, spelled A-F-F-E-R-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’affermer. Location d'un bien rural moyennant le paiement d'un fermage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affermage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mêmes objections ne s'appliquent pas au contrat de location ou d'affermage.
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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