aphone
French, adjective/a.fɔn/
aphone is spelled A-P-H-O-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 94,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aphone is a French adjective meaning “voiceless, aphonic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est sans voix, atteint d’aphonie”.
What does aphone mean in English?
adjective
- 1
voiceless, aphonic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est sans voix, atteint d’aphonie. 2. Sans voix, muet, estomaqué.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aphone
- aphones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aphone?
- /a.fɔn/
- /a.fon/
- \a.fɔn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aphone
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aphone in French?
aphone appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).