affrontait
\a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“affrontait” is uncommon French (frequency #61,283 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,283
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe affronter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affrontait · affrontait · French
affrontait · rank #61,283 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,283
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affectivité
Nearest frequency peer: affectivité (-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 « affrontait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adossées
adossées
38,721 corpus weight
- advisor
advisor
38,720 corpus weight
- affectivité
affectivité
38,719 corpus weight
- affrontait
affrontait
38,718 corpus weight
- affut
affut
38,717 corpus weight
- AGIRC
AGIRC
38,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affrontait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affrontait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affrontait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affrontait is uncommon French at frequency #61,283 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe affronter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for affrontait, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is affrontait, spelled A-F-F-R-O-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe affronter.
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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