affronts
\a.fʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“affronts” is uncommon French (frequency #92,389 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,389
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de affront.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affronts · affronts · French
affronts · rank #92,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,389
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH AFN
Nearest frequency peer: AFN (+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 « affronts »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adroits
adroits
7,615 corpus weight
- affaissée
affaissée
7,614 corpus weight
- affronts
affronts
7,612 corpus weight
- AFN
AFN
7,611 corpus weight
- africana
africana
7,610 corpus weight
- agglutinent
agglutinent
7,609 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affronts » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affronts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affronts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affronts is uncommon French at frequency #92,389 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de affront.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for affronts, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is affronts, spelled A-F-F-R-O-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de affront.
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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