affecta
\a.fɛk.ta\
The verdict
“affecta” is uncommon French (frequency #79,905 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,905
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe affecter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affecta · affecta · French
affecta · rank #79,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,905
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH administrait
Nearest frequency peer: administrait (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « affecta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adjudicatai…
adjudicataire
20,098 corpus weight
- administrait
administrait
20,097 corpus weight
- affecta
affecta
20,096 corpus weight
- AFs
AFs
20,095 corpus weight
- agroforeste…
agroforesterie
20,094 corpus weight
- Alaoui
Alaoui
20,093 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affecta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affecta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fɛk.ta\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affecta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affecta is uncommon French at frequency #79,905 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.fɛk.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe affecter.".
affecta doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is affecta, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe affecter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affecta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussitôt l’intrus recula, baissa les yeux et, relevant les pans de sa pèlerine, affecta de se chauffer.
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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