affaiblissent

Name: affaiblissent, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\a.fe.blis\

/\a.fe.blis\/ verb

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“affaiblissent” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#45,416
frequency rank, French: 6,727
“A” headwords: 16
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de affaiblir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-affaiblissent · affaiblissent · French

affaiblissent · rank #45,416 · 16 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-MID #45,416
LEN-MEGA 13 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-HIGH 16 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,727
PHOTO-FINISH adulé

Nearest frequency peer: adulé (-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.

admins

54,588
ADR

54,587
adulé

54,586
affaiblisse…

54,585
affliction

54,584
aficionados

54,583

What this shows « affaiblissent » 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).

affaiblissent vs affaiblissement

87% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for affaiblissent
Property	Value
Headword	affaiblissent
Language	French
Part of speech	Verb
IPA	\a.fe.blis\
Letters	13
Frequency rank	#45,416
Misspellings tracked	16
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affaiblissent »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).affaiblissentse place ici:

#45,416

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « adulé » (#45,415), « affliction » (#45,417), « ADR » (#45,414). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « affaiblissent » est au #45,416. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around affaiblissent (IPA \a.fe.blis\), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,416 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for affaiblissent, with forms such as "afafiblissent", "afaiblissent", and "affabilissent". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "affaiblissement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is affaiblissent, spelled A-F-F-A-I-B-L-I-S-S-E-N-T.

Definition

1
Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de affaiblir.
2
Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de affaiblir.
3
Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de affaiblir.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

afafiblissent
afaiblissent
affabilissent
affaibblissent
affaibilssent
affaiblisent
affaiblisesnt
affaiblissennt
affaiblissentt
affaiblissetn
affaiblissnet
affaibllissent
affaiblsisent
affailbissent
affiablissent
fafaiblissent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affaiblissent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "affaiblissent"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "affaiblissent"?

"affaiblissent" is spelled A-F-F-A-I-B-L-I-S-S-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fe.blis\.

What does "affaiblissent" mean?

As a verb, "affaiblissent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de affaiblir.

What words are commonly confused with "affaiblissent"?

"affaiblissent" is commonly confused with "affaiblissement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "affaiblissent"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affaiblissent" is \a.fe.blis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "affaiblissent" come from?

"affaiblissent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "affaiblissent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

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