affolante
\a.fɔ.lɑ̃t\
The verdict
“affolante” is uncommon French (frequency #87,304 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,304
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de affolant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affolante · affolante · French
affolante · rank #87,304 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,304
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affaiblirait
Nearest frequency peer: affaiblirait (-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 « affolante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adana
adana
12,701 corpus weight
- affaiblirait
affaiblirait
12,698 corpus weight
- affolante
affolante
12,697 corpus weight
- affûtée
affûtée
12,695 corpus weight
- alin
alin
12,692 corpus weight
- allergologue
allergologue
12,691 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affolante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affolante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fɔ.lɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affolante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affolante is uncommon French at frequency #87,304 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.fɔ.lɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de affolant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for affolante in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is affolante, spelled A-F-F-O-L-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de affolant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affolante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après quelques échanges d’une affolante banalité, Jean lui propose de « verlainiser » sa soirée et de devenir son « GPS », son « Graal pour Soumise ».
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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