affliger
\a.fli.ʒe\
The verdict
“affliger” is uncommon French (frequency #98,703 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,703
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abattre moralement, attrister profondément.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affliger · affliger · French
affliger · rank #98,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,703
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affairer
Nearest frequency peer: affairer (-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 « affliger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adopterait
adopterait
1,303 corpus weight
- affairer
affairer
1,299 corpus weight
- affliger
affliger
1,298 corpus weight
- Afriques
Afriques
1,297 corpus weight
- aggraverait
aggraverait
1,294 corpus weight
- agonistes
agonistes
1,293 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affliger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affliger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fli.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affliger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affliger is uncommon French at frequency #98,703 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fli.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for affliger in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 affliger, spelled A-F-F-L-I-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Abattre moralement, attrister profondément.
- 2Mortifier son corps, le faire souffrir.
- 3Ruiner un pays par les calamités.
- 4Se désoler ; s’attrister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affliger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce moment, Modeste, […], était affligée comme Perrette en voyant ses œufs cassés.
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.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "affliger"?
What does "affliger" mean?
How do you pronounce "affliger"?
What language does "affliger" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "affliger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).