afraid
\əˈfɹeɪd\
The verdict
“afraid” is uncommon French (frequency #65,666 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,666
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peureux, timide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afraid · afraid · French
afraid · rank #65,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,666
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affalé
Nearest frequency peer: affalé (-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 « afraid »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aedes
aedes
34,338 corpus weight
- aer
aer
34,337 corpus weight
- affalé
affalé
34,336 corpus weight
- afraid
afraid
34,335 corpus weight
- agios
agios
34,334 corpus weight
- agrandies
agrandies
34,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « afraid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afraid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \əˈfɹeɪd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « afraid » en français
Rare enough to double-check
afraid is uncommon French at frequency #65,666 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \əˈfɹeɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peureux, timide.".
afraid doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is afraid, spelled A-F-R-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1Peureux, timide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afraid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She’s afraid.
I’m afraid of spiders.
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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