affichage

\a.fi.ʃaʒ\

/\a.fi.ʃaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“affichage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,648
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’afficher ou résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-affichage · affichage · French

affichage · rank #8,648 · 11 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,648
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Adrien

Nearest frequency peer: Adrien (-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 « affichage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « affichage » 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).

affichage vs affiche
78% similar
affichage vs affichée
78% similar
affichage vs affinage
78% similar

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

Key facts for affichage
PropertyValue
Headwordaffichage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.fi.ʃaʒ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#8,648
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affichage »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.affichagese 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 « Adrien » (#8,647), « affreux » (#8,649), « acides » (#8,646). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « affichage » est au #8,648. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around affichage (IPA \a.fi.ʃaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,648 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for affichage, with forms such as "affcihage", "afficahge", and "afficchage". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "affiche", "affichée", "affinage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is affichage, spelled A-F-F-I-C-H-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’afficher ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Action de poser une tapisserie sur un mur préalablement encollé.
  3. 3
    Représentation d’un ensemble de données sur un écran.
  4. 4
    Action de montrer ostensiblement pour simplement paraitre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les colleurs d’affiches après avoir enduit de colle très liquide le panneau d’affichage appliquent leur papier en le noyant littéralement de colle pour que l’allongement soit rapide et le glissement facile.
  2. Le tribunal ordonnera dans tous les cas la publication intégrale ou par extraits des jugements dans le Journal officiel de la République française ainsi que dans les journaux désignés par lui et leur affichage intégral ou par extraits pendant trois mois sur les panneaux réservés à l’affichage des publications officielles de la commune où les contribuables…

Synonyms

affichement

This word in other languages

posting(English)anschlagen(Deutsch)exibição(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • affcihage
  • afficahge
  • afficchage
  • affichaeg
  • affichagge
  • affichgae
  • affichhage
  • affihcage
  • afichage
  • afifchage
  • fafichage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affichage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

affcihage2afficahge2afficchage1affichaeg2affichagge1affichgae2affichhage1affihcage2
Edit distance from "affichage"

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 "affichage"?
"affichage" is spelled A-F-F-I-C-H-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fi.ʃaʒ\.
What does "affichage" mean?
As a noun, "affichage" means: Action d’afficher ou résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "affichage"?
"affichage" is commonly confused with "affiche", "affichée", "affinage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "affichage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affichage" is \a.fi.ʃaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affichage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

acceptent#8,645aléatoire#8,651éternelle#8,641sympathie#8,626

Similar misspelling depth

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

vendent11 variantssurplus11 variantscéleste11 variantspunition11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list