affrètement
\a.fʁɛt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“affrètement” is uncommon French (frequency #66,471 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,471
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’affréter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affretement · affrètement · French
affrètement · rank #66,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,471
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH additionnée
Nearest frequency peer: additionnée (-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 « affrètement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- actionnant
actionnant
33,533 corpus weight
- acts
acts
33,532 corpus weight
- additionnée
additionnée
33,531 corpus weight
- affrètement
affrètement
33,530 corpus weight
- agiront
agiront
33,529 corpus weight
- agitaient
agitaient
33,528 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affrètement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affrètement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fʁɛt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affrètement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affrètement is uncommon French at frequency #66,471 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fʁɛt.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’affréter.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for affrètement, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is affrètement, spelled A-F-F-R-È-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’affréter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affrètement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le contrat comporte ou bien remise du navire, ou d'un espace, d'un tonnage du navire à l'affréteur, et c'est alors un affrètement, ou bien remise de la marchandise au transporteur, et c'est un contrat de transport.
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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