affaissement
\a.fɛs.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“affaissement” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,136. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,136
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est affaissé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affaissement · affaissement · French
affaissement · rank #39,136 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,136
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH admirables
Nearest frequency peer: admirables (-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 « affaissement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adhérente
adhérente
60,868 corpus weight
- adi
adi
60,867 corpus weight
- admirables
admirables
60,866 corpus weight
- affaissement
affaissement
60,865 corpus weight
- affectueuse
affectueuse
60,864 corpus weight
- Agamemnon
Agamemnon
60,862 corpus weight
What this shows « affaissement » 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 | affaissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fɛs.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #39,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affaissement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around affaissement (IPA \a.fɛs.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,136 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for affaissement, with forms such as "afafissement", "afaissement", and "affaisement". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "abaissement", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is affaissement, spelled A-F-F-A-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est affaissé.
- 2Dégonflement d’un pneumatique qui s’affaisse sur le sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affaissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle sentait tout cela vaguement à une certaine désillusion, à un affaissement de ses rêves.
Il n’osait pas interroger Dominique, lui demander pourquoi Pierre n’était pas de retour ; il soupçonnait, à son affaissement, qu’il s’était passé quelque chose.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afafissement
- afaissement
- affaisement
- affaisesment
- affaisseemnt
- affaissemennt
- affaissementt
- affaissemetn
- affaissemment
- affaissemnet
- affaissmeent
- affasisement
- affiassement
- fafaissement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affaissement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).