affilés
\a.fi.le\
The verdict
“affilés” is uncommon French (frequency #80,832 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,832
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe affiler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affiles · affilés · French
affilés · rank #80,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,832
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accueillerait
Nearest frequency peer: accueillerait (-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 « affilés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accepterez
accepterez
19,172 corpus weight
- accourir
accourir
19,171 corpus weight
- accueillera…
accueillerait
19,170 corpus weight
- affilés
affilés
19,169 corpus weight
- affinés
affinés
19,168 corpus weight
- agissante
agissante
19,166 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affilés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affilés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fi.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affilés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affilés is uncommon French at frequency #80,832 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fi.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe affiler.".
affilés has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is affilés, spelled A-F-F-I-L-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe affiler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affilés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle craignait les yeux affilés de cette vieille dévouée, qui adorait Lasthénie, et les pleurs que la pauvre fille ne pouvait retenir et qui coulaient silencieusement, de longues heures, sur ses mains, tout en travaillant…
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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