affectation

\a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃\

/\a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“affectation” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,708. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,708
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Destination, application d’une chose à un certain usage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-affectation · affectation · French

affectation · rank #12,708 · 14 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,708
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Adrian

Nearest frequency peer: Adrian (-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 « affectation »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « affectation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

affectation vs affection
82% similar
affectation vs affectations
92% similar

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

Key facts for affectation
PropertyValue
Headwordaffectation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#12,708
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affectation »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).affectationse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Adrian » (#12,707), « affrontent » (#12,709), « actrices » (#12,706). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « affectation » est au #12,708. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around affectation (IPA \a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,708 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for affectation, with forms such as "afectation", "afefctation", and "affcetation". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "affection", "affectations", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is affectation, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Destination, application d’une chose à un certain usage.
  2. 2
    Action d’assigner un poste ; ce poste lui-même.
  3. 3
    Action de doter une grandeur d’un signe qui en modifie la valeur.
  4. 4
    Acte ou fait ayant pour conséquence d’incorporer un bien au domaine public.
  5. 5
    Attribution d’une valeur à une variable.
  6. 6
    Dans une forêt traitée en futaie régulière, surface qui doit être régénérée pendant un temps déterminé, appelé période.
  7. 7
    Action de feindre ou d’exagérer certains sentiments et certaines qualités.
  8. 8
    Manière de parler et d’agir qui s’éloigne du naturel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how affectation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’affectation d’une somme à telle dépense, d’un monument à tel usage.
  2. Rejoindre son affectation.

This word in other languages

posting(English)afectación(Español)Vortäuschung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afectation
  • afefctation
  • affcetation
  • affecattion
  • affecctation
  • affectaiton
  • affectatino
  • affectationn
  • affectatoin
  • affectattion
  • affecttaion
  • affecttation
  • affetcation
  • fafectation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affectation - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

afectation1afefctation2affcetation2affecattion2affecctation1affectaiton2affectatino2affectationn1
Edit distance from "affectation"

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 "affectation"?
"affectation" is spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃\.
What does "affectation" mean?
As a noun, "affectation" means: Destination, application d’une chose à un certain usage.
What words are commonly confused with "affectation"?
"affectation" is commonly confused with "affection", "affectations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "affectation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affectation" is \a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affectation" come from?
"affectation" 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 "affectation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

aspirations#12,719vulnérables#12,693tranquilles#12,687compatibles#12,745

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

affrontent14 variantsstagiaires14 variantsréunissent14 variantsdiffamation14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list