affirma
\a.fiʁ.ma\
The verdict
“affirma” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,961. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,961
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe affirmer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affirma · affirma · French
affirma · rank #33,961 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,961
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affectueuseme…
Nearest frequency peer: affectueusement (-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 « affirma »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accélèrent
accélèrent
66,043 corpus weight
- Adrienne
Adrienne
66,042 corpus weight
- affectueuse…
affectueusement
66,041 corpus weight
- affirma
affirma
66,040 corpus weight
- aggravant
aggravant
66,039 corpus weight
- agronome
agronome
66,038 corpus weight
What this shows « affirma » 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 | affirma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fiʁ.ma\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affirma »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around affirma (IPA \a.fiʁ.ma\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,961 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe affirmer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for affirma, with forms such as "affimra", "affiram", and "affirmma". 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, "affirme", "affirmer", "affirmée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is affirma, spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe affirmer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affirma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
P’pa, affirma Zizi, je ne suis pas d’la rousse, et j’me contrefiche de la préfecture.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affimra
- affiram
- affirmma
- affirrma
- affrima
- afifrma
- afirma
- fafirma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affirma - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).