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affronté

French, verb

affronté is spelled A-F-F-R-O-N-T-É (8 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affronté is a French verb meaning “past participle of affronter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, affronte is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.

What does affronté mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of affronter

verb

as affronte
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Voir affrontés car l’adjectif est toujours employé au pluriel.

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 affronté

  • affrontée feminine
  • affrontés masculine plural
  • affrontées feminine plural

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

How common is affronté in French?

affronté appears 3.7 times per million words in written French.

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

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