afficheur
\a.fi.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“afficheur” is uncommon French (frequency #73,682 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,682
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui appose des affiches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afficheur · afficheur · French
afficheur · rank #73,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,682
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH advint
Nearest frequency peer: advint (-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 « afficheur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adl
adl
26,322 corpus weight
- admiratrices
admiratrices
26,321 corpus weight
- advint
advint
26,320 corpus weight
- afficheur
afficheur
26,319 corpus weight
- affidavit
affidavit
26,318 corpus weight
- agapes
agapes
26,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « afficheur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afficheur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fi.ʃœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « afficheur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
afficheur is uncommon French at frequency #73,682 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fi.ʃœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for afficheur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is afficheur, spelled A-F-F-I-C-H-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui appose des affiches.
- 2Dispositif comportant des emplacements où l’on peut représenter des chiffres ou des lettres, sur un appareil, un réveil, un tableau etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afficheur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il attendait, impatient, derrière l’afficheur, qui, avec son gros pinceau, barbouillait le dos de l'affiche.
Smartphones, ordinateurs et tablettes sont passés à l’heure d’hiver automatiquement mais ce n’est pas forcément le cas de votre montre, de l’horloge de mamie ou de l’afficheur du four ou de la voiture.
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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