afin que

/\a.fɛ̃ kə\/ conj

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

afin que is aFrenchconj. It means: Dans le but que, pour que. Pronounced \a.fɛ̃ kə\.

Key facts for afin que
PropertyValue
Headwordafin que
LanguageFrench
Part of speechConj
IPA\a.fɛ̃ kə\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

afin que is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for afin que is 8 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.fɛ̃ kə\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dans le but que, pour que.".

No misspelling variants are generated for afin que in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is afin que, spelled A-F-I-N- -Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dans le but que, pour que.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "afin que"?
"afin que" is spelled A-F-I-N- -Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fɛ̃ kə\.
What does "afin que" mean?
As a conj, "afin que" means: Dans le but que, pour que.
How do you pronounce "afin que"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "afin que" is \a.fɛ̃ kə\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "afin que" come from?
"afin que" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.