affectueux
\a.fɛk.tɥø\
The verdict
“affectueux” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,226. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,226
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui montre de l’affection, de l’amour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affectueux · affectueux · French
affectueux · rank #21,226 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,226
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affamés
Nearest frequency peer: affamés (-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 « affectueux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accélérée
accélérée
78,778 corpus weight
- admettant
admettant
78,777 corpus weight
- affamés
affamés
78,776 corpus weight
- affectueux
affectueux
78,775 corpus weight
- aggravation
aggravation
78,773 corpus weight
- agile
agile
78,772 corpus weight
What this shows « affectueux » 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 | affectueux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fɛk.tɥø\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affectueux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around affectueux (IPA \a.fɛk.tɥø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,226 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui montre de l’affection, de l’amour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for affectueux, with forms such as "afectueux", "afefctueux", and "affcetueux". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "affectueuse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is affectueux, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-U-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui montre de l’affection, de l’amour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affectueux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces lettres étaient écrites sur un ton de familiarité affectueuse, et si Hervé avait voulu lire entre les lignes, il aurait facilement deviné que la marquise avait une forte inclination pour lui.
Maurice fut aussi affectueux qu’il put pour tout cet ensemble qui, lorsqu’il l’avait sous les yeux, lui inspirait infiniment moins de crainte que lorsqu’il était éloigné.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afectueux
- afefctueux
- affcetueux
- affecctueux
- affecteuux
- affecttueux
- affectueuxx
- affectuexu
- affectuuex
- affecuteux
- affetcueux
- fafectueux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affectueux - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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