affut
\a.fy\
The verdict
“affut” is uncommon French (frequency #61,284 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,284
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Machine de bois ou de métal servant à supporter ou à transporter une pièce d’artillerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affut · affut · French
affut · rank #61,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,284
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affrontait
Nearest frequency peer: affrontait (-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 « affut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- agoniser
agoniser
38,715 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affut is uncommon French at frequency #61,284 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for affut, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 affut, spelled A-F-F-U-T.
Definition
- 1Machine de bois ou de métal servant à supporter ou à transporter une pièce d’artillerie.
- 2Châssis de bois qui formait le moule pour puiser les feuilles de papier.
- 3Signifie l’endroit où on se poste pour attendre le gibier à la sortie du bois ou à la rentrée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a des affuts non mobiles, des affuts roulants, des affuts glissants.
Affut de canon.
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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