affleurissement
\a.flœ.ʁis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“affleurissement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affleurement de couches géologiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affleurissement · affleurissement · French
affleurissement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affleurissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.flœ.ʁis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
affleurissement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.flœ.ʁis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affleurement de couches géologiques.".
No misspelling variants are generated for affleurissement in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is affleurissement, spelled A-F-F-L-E-U-R-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Affleurement de couches géologiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affleurissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au pied de la colline , on remarque un affleurissement d’une épaisseur de 4 mètres environ du même sable vert que nous retrouverons tantôt à Simpelveld et à Benzeraad
Au Schaasberg près de Fauquemont, sur la rive droite de la Geul, une belle coupe nous montre un affleurissement d’une partie des couches inférieures de la craie tuffeau.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.