affleurement
\a.flœ.ʁə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“affleurement” is uncommon French (frequency #68,017 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,017
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’affleurer ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affleurement · affleurement · French
affleurement · rank #68,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,017
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affilier
Nearest frequency peer: affilier (-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 « affleurement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adorerai
adorerai
31,987 corpus weight
- adorerez
adorerez
31,986 corpus weight
- affilier
affilier
31,985 corpus weight
- affleurement
affleurement
31,984 corpus weight
- aghion
aghion
31,983 corpus weight
- agree
agree
31,982 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affleurement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affleurement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.flœ.ʁə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #68,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affleurement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affleurement is uncommon French at frequency #68,017 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.flœ.ʁə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
affleurement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is affleurement, spelled A-F-F-L-E-U-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’affleurer ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Endroit où le sous-sol rocheux est visible à la surface du sol.
- 3Fait de réapparaître à la conscience, de devenir perceptible alors que cela était dissimulé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affleurement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les formations du Lias ne présentent d’affleurements importants que dans la vallée inférieure de la Lanterne où elles s’étendent sur les communes de Bassigney, Dampierre-les-Conflans, Bourguignon.
Ces montagnes sont essentiellement formées de terrains carbonifères. Ce sont en grande partie des calcaires dinantiens, des schistes du Carbonifère supérieur auxquels se joignent quelques affleurements de grès permo-triasiques.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).