affréter
French, verb/a.fʁe.te/
affréter is spelled A-F-F-R-É-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 84,649th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affréter is a French verb meaning “to charter (a plane)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prendre un navire, un avion, un camion en location, en totalité ou en partie”.
What does affréter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to charter (a plane)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prendre un navire, un avion, un camion en location, en totalité ou en partie.
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 affréter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- affrétant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- affrété participle past
- affrète first-person indicative present
- affrètes indicative present second-person
- affrétons first-person indicative plural
- affrétez indicative plural present
- affrètent indicative plural present
- affrétais first-person imperfect indicative
- affrétait imperfect indicative singular
- affrétions first-person imperfect indicative
- affrétiez imperfect indicative plural
- affrétaient imperfect indicative plural
- affrétai first-person historic indicative
- affrétas historic indicative past
- affréta historic indicative past
- affrétâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affréter?
- /a.fʁe.te/
- \a.fʁe.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is affréter in French?
affréter appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).