Afriques

\a.fʁik\

/\a.fʁik\/ name

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The verdict

“Afriques” is uncommon French (frequency #98,704 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#98,704
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de Afrique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-afriques · Afriques · French

Afriques · rank #98,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #98,704
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH affliger

Nearest frequency peer: affliger (-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 « Afriques »

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 « Afriques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Afriques
PropertyValue
HeadwordAfriques
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.fʁik\
Letters8
Frequency rank#98,704
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Afriques » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Afriquestombe 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: « affliger » (#98,703), « affairer » (#98,702), « aggraverait » (#98,707). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Afriques » est au #98,704. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Afriques is uncommon French at frequency #98,704 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.fʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de Afrique.".

Afriques doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Afriques, spelled A-F-R-I-Q-U-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de Afrique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Ces chiffres globaux masquent cependant des réalités régionales car les situations locales sont contrastées et donc souvent très différentes et c’est pourquoi il convient de toujours parler des Afriques et non de l’Afrique.

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 "Afriques"?
"Afriques" is spelled A-F-R-I-Q-U-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fʁik\.
What does "Afriques" mean?
As a proper noun, "Afriques" means: Pluriel de Afrique.
How do you pronounce "Afriques"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Afriques" is \a.fʁik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Afriques" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

affliger#98,703affairer#98,702algèbres#98,716amazighe#98,721

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list