affirmes
\a.fiʁm\
The verdict
“affirmes” is uncommon French (frequency #90,372 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,372
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affirmer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affirmes · affirmes · French
affirmes · rank #90,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,372
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affinées
Nearest frequency peer: affinées (-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 « affirmes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affectueuses
affectueuses
9,632 corpus weight
- affilées
affilées
9,631 corpus weight
- affinées
affinées
9,630 corpus weight
- affirmes
affirmes
9,629 corpus weight
- afrikaner
afrikaner
9,628 corpus weight
- agaçants
agaçants
9,627 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affirmes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affirmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fiʁm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affirmes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affirmes is uncommon French at frequency #90,372 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fiʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for affirmes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is affirmes, spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affirmer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe affirmer.
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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