affective

\a.fɛk.tiv\

/\a.fɛk.tiv\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « affective » 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).

affective vs affectives
90% similar
affective vs affecté
67% similar
affective vs affectée
78% similar

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

Key facts for affective
PropertyValue
Headwordaffective
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.fɛk.tiv\
Letters9
Frequency rank#21,522
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affective »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.affectivese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « adolescentes » (#21,521), « affront » (#21,523), « abusif » (#21,520). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « affective » est au #21,522. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de affectif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

afective1afefctive2affcetive2affecctive1affecitve2affectiev2affectivve1affecttive1
Edit distance from "affective"

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 "affective"?
"affective" is spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fɛk.tiv\.
What does "affective" mean?
As an adjective, "affective" means: Féminin singulier de affectif.
What words are commonly confused with "affective"?
"affective" is commonly confused with "affectives", "affecté", "affectée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "affective"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affective" is \a.fɛk.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affective" come from?
"affective" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "affective", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list