affects
\a.fɛkt\
The verdict
“affects” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,899
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de affect.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affects · affects · French
affects · rank #48,899 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,899
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH advenant
Nearest frequency peer: advenant (-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 « affects »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adoptions
adoptions
51,106 corpus weight
- adoraient
adoraient
51,105 corpus weight
- advenant
advenant
51,103 corpus weight
- affects
affects
51,102 corpus weight
- agripper
agripper
51,100 corpus weight
- ains
ains
51,098 corpus weight
What this shows « affects » 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 | affects |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fɛkt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affects »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around affects (IPA \a.fɛkt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,899 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de affect.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for affects, with forms such as "afects", "afefcts", and "affcets". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "aspects", "affect", "affecté", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is affects, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de affect.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affects appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut dire alors le génie qui a présidé à la distribution des rôles, avec des tempéraments et des personnages aussi aussi différents, opposés même, que Te Kanawa, douce, délicate, sans affects, sans hauts, sans bas, Carreras, angoissé, nerveux, mauvais ici, merveilleux là, Troyanos, génialement drôle, génialement new-yorkaise, génialement juive, géniale…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afects
- afefcts
- affcets
- affeccts
- affecst
- affectss
- affectts
- affetcs
- fafects
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affects - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).