affiche

\a.fiʃ\

/\a.fiʃ\/ noun

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The verdict

“affiche” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,403
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feuille souple ou rigide affichant un message, ou une image, imprimé ou écrit que l’on applique contre les murs pour donner connaissance au public de quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-affiche · affiche · French

affiche · rank #2,403 · 8 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,403
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH étudiant

Nearest frequency peer: étudiant (-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 « affiche »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « affiche » 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).

affiche vs affine
71% similar
affiche vs affilé
57% similar
affiche vs affirme
71% similar

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

Key facts for affiche
PropertyValue
Headwordaffiche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.fiʃ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,403
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affiche »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).affichese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « étudiant » (#2,402), « véhicules » (#2,401), « Allemande » (#2,405). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « affiche » est au #2,403. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around affiche (IPA \a.fiʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,403 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for affiche, with forms such as "affcihe", "afficche", and "afficeh". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "affine", "affilé", "affirme", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is affiche, spelled A-F-F-I-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Feuille souple ou rigide affichant un message, ou une image, imprimé ou écrit que l’on applique contre les murs pour donner connaissance au public de quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des artistes ou spectacles programmés dans un lieu ou lors d’un événement culturel.
  3. 3
    Action d'afficher (au sens figuré).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Elle collectionne aussi toutes les plaques officielles des rues, et à chaque instant un généreux donateur arrive, apportant des panonceaux ou des affiches.
  2. […], je lis avec effarement, à plusieurs encoignures, des affiches enluminées […]. « Engagez-vous dans l’armée coloniale ! » s’écrie l’autre, toute enluminée de perroquets, toute rehaussée de nudités affriolantes.

Synonyms

poster

This word in other languages

placard(English)cartel(Español)Affiche(Deutsch)cartaz(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • affcihe
  • afficche
  • afficeh
  • affichhe
  • affihce
  • afiche
  • afifche
  • fafiche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

affcihe2afficche1afficeh2affichhe1affihce2afiche1afifche2fafiche2
Edit distance from "affiche"

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 "affiche"?
"affiche" is spelled A-F-F-I-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fiʃ\.
What does "affiche" mean?
As a noun, "affiche" means: Feuille souple ou rigide affichant un message, ou une image, imprimé ou écrit que l’on applique contre les murs pour donner connaissance au public de quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "affiche"?
"affiche" is commonly confused with "affine", "affilé", "affirme". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "affiche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affiche" is \a.fiʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affiche" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

apporte#2,406voisins#2,399tournée#2,395Patrick#2,375

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

arabes8 variantssacré8 variantsexcuse8 variantsmanuel8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list