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affolé

French, verb

affolé is spelled A-F-F-O-L-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,160th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affolé is a French verb meaning “past participle of affoler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, affole is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.

What does affolé mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of affoler

verb

as affole
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Rendu fou, fou de. 2. Rendu comme fou par la peur, paniqué. 3. Qualifie l'aiguille de la boussole, lente à prendre sa direction, ou qui oscille.

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 affolé

  • affolée feminine
  • affolés masculine plural
  • affolées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to affolé

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is affolé in French?

affolé appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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