affamé
\a.fa.me\
The verdict
“affamé” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,093
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui souffre de la faim, par absence ou privation de nourriture, avoir très faim.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affame · affamé · French
affamé · rank #24,093 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,093
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accidentel
Nearest frequency peer: accidentel (-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 « affamé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abaisse
abaisse
75,911 corpus weight
- acceptons
acceptons
75,910 corpus weight
- accidentel
accidentel
75,909 corpus weight
- affamé
affamé
75,908 corpus weight
- Alessandro
Alessandro
75,907 corpus weight
- alliant
alliant
75,906 corpus weight
What this shows « affamé » 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 | affamé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fa.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affamé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around affamé (IPA \a.fa.me\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,093 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for affamé, with forms such as "afafmé", "afamé", and "affame". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "affole", "affine", "affilé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is affamé, spelled A-F-F-A-M-É.
Definition
- 1Qui souffre de la faim, par absence ou privation de nourriture, avoir très faim.
- 2Qui a de l’avidité pour quelque chose, qui souhaite quelque chose avec ardeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affamé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] il ne reste plus un habitant, plus une tête de bétail, plus un boisseau de grain. L’intendance ne réussit plus à pourvoir aux besoins de tous les ventres affamés dont elle a la charge.
L’accablement particulier qui l’oppressait ne provenait pas tant d’une anxiété patriotique que de la faim ; évidemment, il se sentait très affamé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afafmé
- afamé
- affame
- affammé
- affaém
- affmaé
- fafamé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affamé - 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 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).