affermir
\a.fɛʁ.miʁ\
The verdict
“affermir” is uncommon French (frequency #62,760 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,760
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre stable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affermir · affermir · French
affermir · rank #62,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,760
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH advisory
Nearest frequency peer: advisory (-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 « affermir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adoptèrent
adoptèrent
37,244 corpus weight
- adorant
adorant
37,243 corpus weight
- advisory
advisory
37,242 corpus weight
- affermir
affermir
37,241 corpus weight
- affirmons
affirmons
37,240 corpus weight
- agricultrice
agricultrice
37,239 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affermir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affermir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fɛʁ.miʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affermir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affermir is uncommon French at frequency #62,760 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fɛʁ.miʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for affermir in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is affermir, spelled A-F-F-E-R-M-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre stable.
- 2Rendre consistant.
- 3Rendre plus assuré, plus difficile à ébranler.
- 4Rendre ferme ce qui était optionnel ou conditionnel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affermir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; le sol s'affaisse en s’asséchant. Pour l’affermir, il faut d'abord brûler les choins, massettes, roseaux, et, pour cela, tenir le marais le plus à sec possible, […].
Il y eut un silence pendant lequel l’homme affermit son lorgnon, fouilla dans la poche intérieure de sa veste et en retira son passeport.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).