affaiblir
\a.fe.bliʁ\
The verdict
“affaiblir” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,593. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,593
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre faible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affaiblir · affaiblir · French
affaiblir · rank #14,593 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,593
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adjointe
Nearest frequency peer: adjointe (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « affaiblir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abattus
abattus
85,411 corpus weight
- accomplie
accomplie
85,410 corpus weight
- adjointe
adjointe
85,409 corpus weight
- affaiblir
affaiblir
85,408 corpus weight
- agité
agité
85,407 corpus weight
- aigu
aigu
85,406 corpus weight
What this shows « affaiblir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | affaiblir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fe.bliʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affaiblir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around affaiblir (IPA \a.fe.bliʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,593 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for affaiblir, with forms such as "afafiblir", "afaiblir", and "affabilir". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "affaiblit", "affaiblis", "affaibli", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is affaiblir, spelled A-F-F-A-I-B-L-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre faible.
- 2Devenir plus faible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affaiblir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
les réformes de Henry II, en affaiblissant les nobles, les avaient rapprochés de leurs tenants. Entre le manoir et le village, les conflits devenaient plus rares.
Et semblablement ce sera affaiblir les monnaies, si leur cours demeure invariable, que de diminuer leur poids ou d’abaisser leur titre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afafiblir
- afaiblir
- affabilir
- affaibblir
- affaibilr
- affaiblirr
- affaibllir
- affaiblri
- affailbir
- affiablir
- fafaiblir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affaiblir - 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 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).