affleurer
\a.flœ.ʁe\
The verdict
“affleurer” is uncommon French (frequency #99,837 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,837
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre à fleur ou de niveau deux corps contigus, soit verticaux, soit horizontaux, sans saillie de l’un sur l’autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affleurer · affleurer · French
affleurer · rank #99,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,837
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH afflictions
Nearest frequency peer: afflictions (+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 « affleurer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Advent
Advent
168 corpus weight
- ael
ael
166 corpus weight
- affleurer
affleurer
164 corpus weight
- afflictions
afflictions
163 corpus weight
- aimantés
aimantés
161 corpus weight
- alas
alas
160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affleurer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affleurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.flœ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affleurer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affleurer is uncommon French at frequency #99,837 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.flœ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
affleurer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 affleurer, spelled A-F-F-L-E-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre à fleur ou de niveau deux corps contigus, soit verticaux, soit horizontaux, sans saillie de l’un sur l’autre.
- 2Toucher en étant au même niveau.
- 3Être à la surface.
- 4Toucher, comme venu d'une profondeur.
- 5Délayer la pâte lorsqu’on veut l’employer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affleurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Affleurer les battants d’une armoire.
Affleurer une trappe au niveau du plancher.
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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