afflicted
/əˈflɪktɪd/
"afflicted" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“afflicted” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,753
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of afflict
Corpus desk
Index EN-afflicted · afflicted · English
afflicted · rank #19,753 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,753
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH adversary
Nearest frequency peer: adversary (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “afflicted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- A3
A3
80,253 corpus weight
- acclaim
acclaim
80,252 corpus weight
- aching
aching
80,251 corpus weight
- adversary
adversary
80,249 corpus weight
- afflicted
afflicted
80,248 corpus weight
- airfield
airfield
80,247 corpus weight
What this shows “afflicted” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the 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 | afflicted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈflɪktɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “afflicted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around afflicted (IPA /əˈflɪktɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,753 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of afflict".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for afflicted, with forms such as "affilcted", "afflcited", and "affliccted". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "affected", "affiliated", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is afflicted, spelled A-F-F-L-I-C-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of afflict
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affilcted
- afflcited
- affliccted
- afflicetd
- afflictde
- afflictedd
- afflictted
- afflitced
- affllicted
- aflficted
- aflicted
- faflicted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of afflicted - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "afflicted", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).