aphélie
\a.fe.li\
The verdict
“aphélie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sur une orbite ayant pour foyer le Soleil, le point le plus éloigné de celui-ci ; autrement dit, l’apoapside d’une orbite héliocentrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aphelie · aphélie · French
aphélie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aphélie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fe.li\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
aphélie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fe.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sur une orbite ayant pour foyer le Soleil, le point le plus éloigné de celui-ci ; autrement dit, l’apoapside d’une orbite héliocentrique.".
aphélie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aphélie, spelled A-P-H-É-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Sur une orbite ayant pour foyer le Soleil, le point le plus éloigné de celui-ci ; autrement dit, l’apoapside d’une orbite héliocentrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aphélie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est en été que la Terre se trouve à l’aphélie de son orbite. La Terre arrive à son aphélie.
Les perturbations planétaires agissent près du périhélie des orbites, par conséquent elles en changent l’aphélie.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.