Afpa
The verdict
“Afpa” is uncommon French (frequency #58,390 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,390
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme français de formation professionnelle, au service des régions, de l’État, des branches professionnelles et des entreprises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afpa · Afpa · French
Afpa · rank #58,390 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,390
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affolée
Nearest frequency peer: affolée (-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 « Afpa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affecterait
affecterait
41,614 corpus weight
- affiliations
affiliations
41,613 corpus weight
- affolée
affolée
41,612 corpus weight
- Afpa
Afpa
41,611 corpus weight
- agitait
agitait
41,610 corpus weight
- aideraient
aideraient
41,609 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Afpa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Afpa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Afpa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Afpa is uncommon French at frequency #58,390 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisme français de formation professionnelle, au service des régions, de l’État, des branches professionnelles et des entreprises.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Afpa, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Afpa, spelled A-F-P-A.
Definition
- 1Organisme français de formation professionnelle, au service des régions, de l’État, des branches professionnelles et des entreprises.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Afpa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Afpa, organisme de formation professionnelle, prend aussi en charge les jeunes, dans le cadre du plan gouvernemental qui rend obligatoire la formation entre 16 et 18 ans.
La directrice générale de l’Afpa, Pascale d’Artois, était auditionnée le 8 mars dernier par la commission des affaires sociales de l’Assemblée nationale.
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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