affirmations

\a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\

/\a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“affirmations” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,503. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,503
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de affirmation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-affirmations · affirmations · French

affirmations · rank #13,503 · 16 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #13,503
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accru

Nearest frequency peer: accru (-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 « affirmations »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « affirmations » 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).

affirmations vs affirmation
92% similar

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

Key facts for affirmations
PropertyValue
Headwordaffirmations
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#13,503
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affirmations »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).affirmationsse 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 « accru » (#13,502), « agresser » (#13,504), « Abel » (#13,501). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « affirmations » est au #13,503. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around affirmations (IPA \a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,503 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de affirmation.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for affirmations, with forms such as "affimrations", "affiramtions", and "affirmaitons". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "affirmation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is affirmations, spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-A-T-I-O-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de affirmation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Et comme la stabilité n’est qu’apparente et qu’elle doit être suivie d’un nouveau mouvement, on revient au grand poème inquiet, où il y a tant d’affirmations émues, et tant d’affirmations qui ne sont au fond que des inquiétudes masquées d'un vernis de certitude, et la gloire augmente et diminue tour à tour, puisqu’elle n’est qu'un reflet, et l’image du po…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • affimrations
  • affiramtions
  • affirmaitons
  • affirmatinos
  • affirmationns
  • affirmationss
  • affirmatiosn
  • affirmatoins
  • affirmattions
  • affirmmations
  • affirmtaions
  • affirrmations
  • affrimations
  • afifrmations
  • afirmations
  • fafirmations

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

affimrations2affiramtions2affirmaitons2affirmatinos2affirmationns1affirmationss1affirmatiosn2affirmatoins2
Edit distance from "affirmations"

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 "affirmations"?
"affirmations" is spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-A-T-I-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\.
What does "affirmations" mean?
As a noun, "affirmations" means: Pluriel de affirmation.
What words are commonly confused with "affirmations"?
"affirmations" is commonly confused with "affirmation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "affirmations"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affirmations" 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 "affirmations" come from?
"affirmations" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list