affections
\a.fɛk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“affections” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,731
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de affection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affections · affections · French
affections · rank #19,731 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,731
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adressées
Nearest frequency peer: adressées (-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 « affections »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- activiste
activiste
80,273 corpus weight
- admin
admin
80,272 corpus weight
- adressées
adressées
80,271 corpus weight
- affections
affections
80,270 corpus weight
- affluent
affluent
80,269 corpus weight
- ahh
ahh
80,268 corpus weight
What this shows « affections » 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 | affections |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affections »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around affections (IPA \a.fɛk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,731 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de affection.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for affections, with forms such as "afections", "afefctions", and "affcetions". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "affectives", "affection", "affectifs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 affections, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de affection.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affections appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon respectable ami M. Chélan, me fit comprendre qu’en épousant M. de Rênal, je lui avais engagé toutes mes affections, même celles que je ne connaissais pas, et que je n’avais jamais éprouvées avant une liaison fatale.
Maxime eut soin de se placer à une certaine distance de quelques vieillots qui par habitude se mettent en espalier, dès une heure après midi, pour sécher leurs affections rhumatiques.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afections
- afefctions
- affcetions
- affecctions
- affecitons
- affectinos
- affectionns
- affectionss
- affectiosn
- affectoins
- affecttions
- affetcions
- fafections
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affections - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).