affixe
\a.fiks\
The verdict
“affixe” is uncommon French (frequency #91,355 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,355
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morphème qui s’ajoute à un radical et qui en modifie le sens ou la fonction, et crée un nouveau mot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affixe · affixe · French
affixe · rank #91,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,355
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affirmèrent
Nearest frequency peer: affirmèrent (-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 « affixe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affairés
affairés
8,649 corpus weight
- affirmèrent
affirmèrent
8,647 corpus weight
- affixe
affixe
8,646 corpus weight
- agglomérés
agglomérés
8,645 corpus weight
- agiraient
agiraient
8,644 corpus weight
- agosto
agosto
8,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affixe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affixe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fiks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affixe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affixe is uncommon French at frequency #91,355 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fiks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for affixe, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is affixe, spelled A-F-F-I-X-E.
Definition
- 1Morphème qui s’ajoute à un radical et qui en modifie le sens ou la fonction, et crée un nouveau mot.
- 2Nom de l’élevage d’origine de l’animal, pour les animaux de race (chien, chat, cheval, etc.).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affixe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Re- et -age sont des affixes.
Je définis un affixe dérivationnel comme une unité infralexicale à sens instructionnel servant à la construction d’unités lexicales.
This word in other languages
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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