affolent
\a.fɔl\
The verdict
“affolent” is uncommon French (frequency #68,779 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,779
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe affoler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affolent · affolent · French
affolent · rank #68,779 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,779
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affamées
Nearest frequency peer: affamées (-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 « affolent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- afar
afar
31,225 corpus weight
- affairent
affairent
31,224 corpus weight
- affamées
affamées
31,223 corpus weight
- affolent
affolent
31,222 corpus weight
- afférent
afférent
31,221 corpus weight
- Afrika
Afrika
31,220 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affolent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affolent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affolent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affolent is uncommon French at frequency #68,779 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for affolent, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is affolent, spelled A-F-F-O-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe affoler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe affoler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affolent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec le cinéaste Tati et le romancier Modiano, il était de ceux qui s’affolent quand on les interroge, comme un albatros sur le pont du navire, mais nous éblouissent par leur talent inimitable et indémodable, léger et distingué.
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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