affective
\a.fɛk.tiv\
The verdict
“affective” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,522. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,522
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de affectif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affective · affective · French
affective · rank #21,522 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,522
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adolescentes
Nearest frequency peer: adolescentes (-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 « affective »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abusif
abusif
78,481 corpus weight
- adolescentes
adolescentes
78,480 corpus weight
- affective
affective
78,479 corpus weight
- affront
affront
78,478 corpus weight
- alone
alone
78,477 corpus weight
- antre
antre
78,476 corpus weight
What this shows « affective » 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 | affective |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fɛk.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affective »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around affective (IPA \a.fɛk.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,522 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de affectif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for affective, with forms such as "afective", "afefctive", and "affcetive". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "affectives", "affecté", "affectée", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is affective, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de affectif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affective appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Venez, bacheliers des marivaudages toujours renaissants, licenciés en jurisprudence affective, docteurs ès jeux floraux de l’amour, analyste des entités, qui aimez à désalambiquer vos cristallisations et à éthérer par la chimiâtrie et la sublimation, vos sensations physiques et vos ivresses psychiques.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afective
- afefctive
- affcetive
- affecctive
- affecitve
- affectiev
- affectivve
- affecttive
- affectvie
- affetcive
- fafective
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affective - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).