affect
\a.fɛkt\
The verdict
“affect” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,638
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposition affective élémentaire : humeur, émotion, sentiment, motivation, passion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affect · affect · French
affect · rank #37,638 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,638
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Aff
Nearest frequency peer: Aff (-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 « affect »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adoucit
adoucit
62,366 corpus weight
- advenir
advenir
62,365 corpus weight
- Aff
Aff
62,364 corpus weight
- affect
affect
62,363 corpus weight
- affoler
affoler
62,362 corpus weight
- affranchiss…
affranchissement
62,360 corpus weight
What this shows « affect » 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 | affect |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fɛkt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affect »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around affect (IPA \a.fɛkt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,638 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Disposition affective élémentaire : humeur, émotion, sentiment, motivation, passion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for affect, with forms such as "afect", "afefct", and "affcet". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "aspect", "affecté", "affects", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is affect, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1Disposition affective élémentaire : humeur, émotion, sentiment, motivation, passion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affect appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre l'addictologie et Laurent Karila, c'est une histoire d'affect qui dure. Après un internat de psychiatrie, il s’entiche rapidement de la science des dépendances.
Ils formaient un couple étrange : lui, si cérébral en apparence, mais totalement gouverné par ses affects, elle, si émotive en surface, solide comme un roc et intimement persuadée qu’elle était sotte.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afect
- afefct
- affcet
- affecct
- affectt
- affetc
- fafect
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affect - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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