afluisteren
The verdict
“afluisteren” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écouter, effectuer des écoutes, écouter la conversation de (quelqu’un).
Corpus desk
Index FR-afluisteren · afluisteren · French
afluisteren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afluisteren |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « afluisteren » en français
Rare enough to double-check
afluisteren is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for afluisteren, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is afluisteren, spelled A-F-L-U-I-S-T-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Écouter, effectuer des écoutes, écouter la conversation de (quelqu’un).
- 2Écouter jusqu’à la fin de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how afluisteren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ik heb de geluidsband tot het aan einde toe afgeluisterd.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.