afterwork
\af.təʁ.wɔʁk\
The verdict
“afterwork” is uncommon French (frequency #64,908 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,908
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Période se trouvant après le temps travaillé dans une journée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afterwork · afterwork · French
afterwork · rank #64,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,908
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acéré
Nearest frequency peer: acéré (-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 « afterwork »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aboutirent
aboutirent
35,096 corpus weight
- ACOSS
ACOSS
35,095 corpus weight
- acéré
acéré
35,094 corpus weight
- afterwork
afterwork
35,093 corpus weight
- Agassiz
Agassiz
35,092 corpus weight
- agnel
agnel
35,091 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « afterwork » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afterwork |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \af.təʁ.wɔʁk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « afterwork » en français
Rare enough to double-check
afterwork is uncommon French at frequency #64,908 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \af.təʁ.wɔʁk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for afterwork in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is afterwork, spelled A-F-T-E-R-W-O-R-K.
Definition
- 1Période se trouvant après le temps travaillé dans une journée.
- 2Moment qui se veut convivial et consiste à partager un verre entre collègues après le travail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afterwork appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] l’université s’ouvre au grand public, proposant au cœur même de Clermont-Ferrand un débat avec invité surprise, des expos, des moments festifs et un afterwork citoyen.
Au pays de la bonne chair, la pause déjeuner reste d’ailleurs un moment sacré. Ici, on y consacre 1 heure 12 en moyenne, contre 48 minutes seulement dans la City, où l’on préfère de loin le rituel de l’afterwork. Ainsi, 70 % des employés londoniens boivent régulièrement des verres avec des collègues après le travail contre 25 % des Parisiens. Question de…
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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