affûtée
\a.fy.te\
The verdict
“affûtée” is uncommon French (frequency #87,306 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,306
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe affûter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affutee · affûtée · French
affûtée · rank #87,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,306
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affolante
Nearest frequency peer: affolante (-2 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 « affûtée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affaiblirait
affaiblirait
12,698 corpus weight
- affolante
affolante
12,697 corpus weight
- affûtée
affûtée
12,695 corpus weight
- alin
alin
12,692 corpus weight
- allergologue
allergologue
12,691 corpus weight
- almamy
almamy
12,690 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affûtée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affûtée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fy.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affûtée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affûtée is uncommon French at frequency #87,306 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fy.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe affûter.".
affûtée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists 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 affûtée, spelled A-F-F-Û-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe affûter.
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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