affligent
\a.fliʒ\
The verdict
“affligent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,386 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,386
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe affliger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affligent · affligent · French
affligent · rank #86,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,386
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agricultrices
Nearest frequency peer: agricultrices (+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 « affligent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adénome
adénome
13,620 corpus weight
- aeon
aeon
13,619 corpus weight
- affligent
affligent
13,615 corpus weight
- agricultric…
agricultrices
13,614 corpus weight
- aina
aina
13,612 corpus weight
- ake
ake
13,610 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affligent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affligent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fliʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affligent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affligent is uncommon French at frequency #86,386 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fliʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for affligent in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is affligent, spelled A-F-F-L-I-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe affliger.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe affliger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affligent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous croyons que la plus grande partie des maux qui affligent les hommes découle de la mauvaise organisation sociale ; et que les hommes, par leur volonté et leur savoir, peuvent les faire disparaître.
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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