affinement
French, noun/a.fin.mɑ̃/
affinement is spelled A-F-F-I-N-E-M-E-N-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 101,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affinement is a French masculine noun meaning “refinement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’affiner ou état de ce qui est affiné”.
What does affinement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerefinement
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’affiner ou état de ce qui est affiné.
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 affinement
- affinements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affinement?
- /a.fin.mɑ̃/
- \a.fin.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is affinement in French?
affinement appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).