afectar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,912
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
afectar is aSpanishverb. It means: Producir un efecto, cambio o alteración en algo o en alguien. Modificar, influir, alterar o mudar su forma o comportamiento. Pronounced [afekˈt̪aɾ]. It ranks #5,912 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with afecto and alentar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afectar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [afekˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for afectar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [afekˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,912 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for afectar, with forms such as "aefctar", "afcetar", and "afecatr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "afecto", "alentar", "afecten", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is afectar, spelled A-F-E-C-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Producir un efecto, cambio o alteración en algo o en alguien. Modificar, influir, alterar o mudar su forma o comportamiento.
- 2Dar la impresión de algo que no es, fingir, aparentar actitudes, sentimientos o posiciones.
- 3Cuidar demasiado de las formas, de modo que la expresión o acción no parecen espontáneas, sencillas o naturales.
- 4Causar una impresión o impacto, especialmente de tipo emocional.
- 5Ser o estar dentro de lo que corresponde, atañe, interesa, concierne o incumbe a alguien o a algo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aefctar,afcetar,afecatr,afecctar,afectarr,afectra,afecttar,afetcar,affectar,faectar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for afectar
Misspelling Variants of "afectar"
Frequency rank: #5,912 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: