affecter
\a.fɛk.te\
The verdict
“affecter” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #10,111 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #10,111
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Destiner et appliquer une chose ou une personne à un certain usage.
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 | affecter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fɛk.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “affecter” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for affecter is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.fɛk.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,111 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for affecter, with forms such as "afecter", "afefcter", and "affceter". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "affects", "afficher", "affectés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is affecter, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Destiner et appliquer une chose ou une personne à un certain usage.
- 2Feindre ou exagérer certains sentiments, certaines qualités.
- 3Marquer une prédilection excessive pour certaines choses.
- 4Rechercher une chose avec ambition, y aspirer, s’y porter avec ardeur.
- 5Exprimer la disposition que certaines substances ont à prendre certaines figures.
- 6Faire sur quelque partie de l’organisme une impression qui l’altère.
- 7Faire sur l’âme une impression qui cause de la douleur, du chagrin, émouvoir, affliger.
- 8Modifier de quelque manière.
- 9Modifier une quantité en la dotant d’un signe, d’un coefficient.
- 10Donner une valeur à une variable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afecter,afefcter,affceter,affeccter,affecetr,affecterr,affectre,affectter,affetcer,fafecter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affecter - 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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Using “affecter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-F-F-E-C-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.fɛk.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “affects” - see the side-by-side comparison. affecter vs affects
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.