afghanes

\af.ɡan\

/\af.ɡan\/ adj

The verdict

“afghanes” is uncommon French (frequency #54,381 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,381
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de afghan.

Corpus desk

Index FR-afghanes · afghanes · French

afghanes · rank #54,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,381
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH adverbes

Nearest frequency peer: adverbes (-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 « afghanes »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « afghanes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for afghanes
PropertyValue
Headwordafghanes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\af.ɡan\
Letters8
Frequency rank#54,381
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « afghanes » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.afghanestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « adverbes » (#54,380), « agonise » (#54,382), « Agostino » (#54,383). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « afghanes » est au #54,381. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

afghanes is uncommon French at frequency #54,381 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \af.ɡan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de afghan.".

afghanes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is afghanes, spelled A-F-G-H-A-N-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de afghan.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how afghanes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Plus de 1 300 habitations ont été détruites par le séisme qui a frappé des régions situées à 30 km au nord-ouest de la ville de Hérat, selon les autorités afghanes.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "afghanes"?
"afghanes" is spelled A-F-G-H-A-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \af.ɡan\.
What does "afghanes" mean?
As an adjective, "afghanes" means: Féminin pluriel de afghan.
How do you pronounce "afghanes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "afghanes" is \af.ɡan\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "afghanes" come from?
"afghanes" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "afghanes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list