affranchissement

/\a.fʁɑ̃.ʃis.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Frequency Rank

#37,641

in French word usage

Misspellings

22

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

affranchissement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’affranchir, de rendre libre. Pronounced \a.fʁɑ̃.ʃis.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for affranchissement
PropertyValue
Headwordaffranchissement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.fʁɑ̃.ʃis.mɑ̃\
Letters16
Frequency rank#37,641
Misspellings tracked22
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of affranchissement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for affranchissement is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.fʁɑ̃.ʃis.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,641 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for affranchissement, with forms such as "affarnchissement", "affracnhissement", and "affrancchissement". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is affranchissement, spelled A-F-F-R-A-N-C-H-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’affranchir, de rendre libre.
  2. 2
    Libération.
  3. 3
    Délivrance de la tyrannie, cessation d’un pouvoir oppressif.
  4. 4
    Exemption de charges, d’impôts, soit de quelque droit onéreux.
  5. 5
    Acquittement préalable des frais postaux d’une lettre, d’un paquet, etc.
  6. 6
    État d'un arbre affranchi.
  7. 7
    Information, fait de donner des renseignements.
  8. 8
    Initiation à la malhonnêteté, pour faire d’un cave un affranchi.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: affarnchissement,affracnhissement,affrancchissement,affranchhissement,affranchisement,affranchisesment,affranchisseemnt,affranchissemennt,affranchissementt,affranchissemetn,affranchissemment,affranchissemnet,affranchissmeent,affranchsisement,affrancihssement,affranhcissement,affrannchissement,affrnachissement,affrranchissement,afranchissement,afrfanchissement,fafranchissement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for affranchissement

Misspelling Variants of "affranchissement"

affarnchissement16affracnhissement16affrancchissement17affranchhissement17affranchisement15affranchisesment16affranchisseemnt16affranchissemennt17
Misspelling Variants of "affranchissement"

Frequency rank: #37,641 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "affranchissement"?
"affranchissement" is spelled A-F-F-R-A-N-C-H-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fʁɑ̃.ʃis.mɑ̃\.
What does "affranchissement" mean?
As a noun, "affranchissement" means: Action d’affranchir, de rendre libre.
What are common misspellings of "affranchissement"?
Common misspellings include "affarnchissement", "affracnhissement", "affrancchissement", "affranchhissement", "affranchisement". The correct spelling is "affranchissement".
How do you pronounce "affranchissement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affranchissement" is \a.fʁɑ̃.ʃis.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affranchissement" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.