affectifs
\a.fɛk.tif\
The verdict
“affectifs” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,106
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de affectif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affectifs · affectifs · French
affectifs · rank #40,106 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,106
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agrégats
Nearest frequency peer: agrégats (+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 « affectifs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adverbe
adverbe
59,898 corpus weight
- adviendra
adviendra
59,897 corpus weight
- affectifs
affectifs
59,895 corpus weight
- agrégats
agrégats
59,894 corpus weight
- aguets
aguets
59,893 corpus weight
- aimées
aimées
59,892 corpus weight
What this shows « affectifs » 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 | affectifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fɛk.tif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affectifs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around affectifs (IPA \a.fɛk.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,106 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de affectif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for affectifs, with forms such as "afectifs", "afefctifs", and "affcetifs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "affects", "affection", "affective", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 affectifs, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de affectif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affectifs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vos besoins affectifs vont s’intensifier, mais vous continuez à jouer la sécurité.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afectifs
- afefctifs
- affcetifs
- affecctifs
- affecitfs
- affectfis
- affectiffs
- affectifss
- affectisf
- affecttifs
- affetcifs
- fafectifs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affectifs - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).