afternoon
\ˌæf.tɚ.ˈnun\
The verdict
“afternoon” is uncommon French (frequency #83,561 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,561
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Moment de la journée) Après-midi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afternoon · afternoon · French
afternoon · rank #83,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,561
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH AELE
Nearest frequency peer: AELE (-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 « afternoon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- admirées
admirées
16,442 corpus weight
- AELE
AELE
16,441 corpus weight
- afternoon
afternoon
16,440 corpus weight
- aggression
aggression
16,439 corpus weight
- agrémente
agrémente
16,438 corpus weight
- ahuris
ahuris
16,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « afternoon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afternoon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌæf.tɚ.ˈnun\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « afternoon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
afternoon is uncommon French at frequency #83,561 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌæf.tɚ.ˈnun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Moment de la journée) Après-midi.".
afternoon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is afternoon, spelled A-F-T-E-R-N-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1(Moment de la journée) Après-midi.
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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