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affriquée

French, noun/a.fʁi.ke/

affriquée is a French feminine noun meaning “affricate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of affriqué. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Consonne composée d’une occlusive et d’une fricative produites au même point d’articulation comme [t͡ʃ] et…”.

What does affriquée mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineaffricate

verb

  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of affriqué

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Consonne composée d’une occlusive et d’une fricative produites au même point d’articulation comme [t͡ʃ] et [d͡ʒ].

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 affriquée

  • affriquées plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce affriquée?

  • /a.fʁi.ke/
  • \a.fʁi.ke\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to affriquée

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is affriquée in French?

affriquée appears about once in every 72 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).