aphte
French, noun/aft/
aphte is spelled A-P-H-T-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 154,162nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aphte is a French masculine noun meaning “mouth ulcer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ulcération blanchâtre, cernée de tissus inflammatoires rouges, allant de superficielle à nécrosante et…”.
What does aphte mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemouth ulcer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ulcération blanchâtre, cernée de tissus inflammatoires rouges, allant de superficielle à nécrosante et siégeant sur les muqueuses.
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 aphte
- aphtes plural
- aphthe
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aphte?
- /aft/
- \aft\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aphte in French?
aphte appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).