aphone
\a.fɔn\
The verdict
“aphone” is uncommon French (frequency #94,465 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,465
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est sans voix, atteint d’aphonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aphone · aphone · French
aphone · rank #94,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,465
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aper
Nearest frequency peer: aper (-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 « aphone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anticoncurr…
anticoncurrentielles
5,539 corpus weight
- anv
anv
5,538 corpus weight
- aper
aper
5,537 corpus weight
- aphone
aphone
5,536 corpus weight
- appointemen…
appointements
5,534 corpus weight
- appontage
appontage
5,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aphone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aphone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aphone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aphone is uncommon French at frequency #94,465 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.fɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
aphone doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aphone, spelled A-P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est sans voix, atteint d’aphonie.
- 2Sans voix, muet, estomaqué.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aphone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une affection du larynx rend ce malade aphone.
Dix ont guéri rapidement et complètement ; l’un d’eux était aphone depuis mars 1915.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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