affligement
\a.fliʒ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“affligement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait d’être affligé ; affliction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affligement · affligement · French
affligement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | affligement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fliʒ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affligement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affligement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fliʒ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait d’être affligé ; affliction.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for affligement, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is affligement, spelled A-F-F-L-I-G-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Fait d’être affligé ; affliction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affligement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Morsure d’ocre à nos membres durcis fusibles de désirs tués sur les bouches d’ouragans où l’orbe d’un cri s’effiloche à nos tempes sonnantes dans l’affligement des vents hyperboles bourrelés de remords […]
Quel affligement ! Quelle coupure ! C’est bien l’entreprise de dévastation systématique, un rouleau compresseur du fragile et du beau, du vrai et de l’humain. Quelle catastrophe ! Quel martyre ! Quelle crucifixion !
Synonyms
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.