affirmation

\a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\

/\a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“affirmation” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,776
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’affirmer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-affirmation · affirmation · French

affirmation · rank #6,776 · 14 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,776
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accompagnement

Nearest frequency peer: accompagnement (-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 « affirmation »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « affirmation » 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).

affirmation vs affirmative
82% similar
affirmation vs affirmations
92% similar
affirmation vs affirmatif
82% similar

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

Key facts for affirmation
PropertyValue
Headwordaffirmation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#6,776
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affirmation »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).affirmationse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « accompagnement » (#6,775), « ajoutant » (#6,777), « alan » (#6,778). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « affirmation » est au #6,776. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around affirmation (IPA \a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,776 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for affirmation, with forms such as "affimration", "affiramtion", and "affirmaiton". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "affirmative", "affirmations", "affirmatif", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is affirmation, spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’affirmer.
  2. 2
    Expression par laquelle une proposition est affirmative.
  3. 3
    Assurance avec serment et dans les formes juridiques.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. De l’autre côté, quelques-uns parmi nous discutaient s'il fallait ajouter foi aux affirmations du criminel qui s'était montré menteur incorrigible.
  2. Sommeil impossible pour quatre, car Laurent ronfle. Nous vérifions enfin sur lui l'affirmation classique des ronfleurs qui ne ronflent prétendent-ils, que couchés sur le dos. Les ronfleurs sont des menteurs : Laurent ronfle quand nous le tournons sur le côté droit, et sur le côté gauche, et sur le ventre.

This word in other languages

affirmation(English)afirmación(Español)Affirmation(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • affimration
  • affiramtion
  • affirmaiton
  • affirmatino
  • affirmationn
  • affirmatoin
  • affirmattion
  • affirmmation
  • affirmtaion
  • affirrmation
  • affrimation
  • afifrmation
  • afirmation
  • fafirmation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affirmation - 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.

affimration2affiramtion2affirmaiton2affirmatino2affirmationn1affirmatoin2affirmattion1affirmmation1
Edit distance from "affirmation"

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 "affirmation"?
"affirmation" is spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\.
What does "affirmation" mean?
As a noun, "affirmation" means: Action d’affirmer.
What words are commonly confused with "affirmation"?
"affirmation" is commonly confused with "affirmative", "affirmations", "affirmatif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "affirmation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affirmation" is \a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affirmation" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

autochtones#6,783quarantaine#6,737proviennent#6,734ouvertement#6,723

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

cohérence14 variantsscolarité14 variantsdisparaît14 variantsprivilège14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list