Affekt
[aˈfɛkt]
The verdict
“Affekt” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,944. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,944
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - heftige Gefühlsregung, starke Gemütsbewegung, innere Erregung
Corpus desk
Index DE-affekt · Affekt · German
Affekt · rank #37,944 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,944
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH affairs
Nearest frequency peer: affairs (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Affekt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- abtauchen
abtauchen
62,061 corpus weight
- adventures
adventures
62,060 corpus weight
- affairs
affairs
62,058 corpus weight
- Affekt
Affekt
62,057 corpus weight
- Agrarpolitik
Agrarpolitik
62,056 corpus weight
- Ahne
Ahne
62,055 corpus weight
What this shows „Affekt“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Affekt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈfɛkt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Affekt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Affekt (IPA [aˈfɛkt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,944 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "heftige Gefühlsregung, starke Gemütsbewegung, innere Erregung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Affekt, with forms such as "afefkt", "afekt", and "affekkt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Affen", "Aspekt", "Affe", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Affekt, spelled A-F-F-E-K-T.
Definition
- 1heftige Gefühlsregung, starke Gemütsbewegung, innere Erregung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Affekt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es ist doch im Affekt passiert.
Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Handlung aus dem Affekt.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afefkt
- afekt
- affekkt
- affektt
- affetk
- affket
- fafekt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Affekt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Affekt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).