affiler
French, verb/a.fi.le/
affiler is spelled A-F-F-I-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affiler is a French verb meaning “to sharpen (to make sharp)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aiguiser le tranchant émoussé ou ébréché d’un instrument, lui donner le fil ou enlever le morfil”.
What does affiler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sharpen (to make sharp)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aiguiser le tranchant émoussé ou ébréché d’un instrument, lui donner le fil ou enlever le morfil. 2. Mettre un lingot de métal dans la filière.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of affiler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- affilant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- affilé participle past
- affile first-person indicative present
- affiles indicative present second-person
- affilons first-person indicative plural
- affilez indicative plural present
- affilent indicative plural present
- affilais first-person imperfect indicative
- affilait imperfect indicative singular
- affilions first-person imperfect indicative
- affiliez imperfect indicative plural
- affilaient imperfect indicative plural
- affilai first-person historic indicative
- affilas historic indicative past
- affila historic indicative past
- affilâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affiler?
- /a.fi.le/
- \a.fi.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to affiler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is affiler in French?
affiler appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).