affolée
\a.fɔ.le\
The verdict
“affolée” is uncommon French (frequency #58,389 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,389
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de affolé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affolee · affolée · French
affolée · rank #58,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,389
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affiliations
Nearest frequency peer: affiliations (-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 « affolée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- admirais
admirais
41,615 corpus weight
- affecterait
affecterait
41,614 corpus weight
- affiliations
affiliations
41,613 corpus weight
- affolée
affolée
41,612 corpus weight
- Afpa
Afpa
41,611 corpus weight
- agitait
agitait
41,610 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affolée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affolée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affolée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affolée is uncommon French at frequency #58,389 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.fɔ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de affolé.".
affolée has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 affolée, spelled A-F-F-O-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de affolé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affolée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Affolée, la jeune fille prit des adresses à la quatrième page des journaux et s’en fut chez des sages-femmes.
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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