affluer
French, verb/a.fly.e/
affluer is spelled A-F-F-L-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,335th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affluer is a French verb meaning “to flow (into) (said of rivers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couler vers, en parlant des eaux qui se rendent et se réunissent dans un même lit”.
What does affluer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flow (into) (said of rivers)
- 2
to pour (in), to come in droves (said of people, things)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couler vers, en parlant des eaux qui se rendent et se réunissent dans un même lit. 2. Couler vers, en parlant des humeurs du corps 3. Abonder ; arriver en abondance.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of affluer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- affluant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- afflué participle past
- afflue first-person indicative present
- afflues indicative present second-person
- affluons first-person indicative plural
- affluez indicative plural present
- affluent indicative plural present
- affluais first-person imperfect indicative
- affluait imperfect indicative singular
- affluions first-person imperfect indicative
- affluiez imperfect indicative plural
- affluaient imperfect indicative plural
- affluai first-person historic indicative
- affluas historic indicative past
- afflua historic indicative past
- affluâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affluer?
- /a.fly.e/
- \a.fly.e\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is affluer in French?
affluer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).