affirmative
\a.fiʁ.ma.tiv\
The verdict
“affirmative” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,260. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,260
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toute proposition par laquelle on affirme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affirmative · affirmative · French
affirmative · rank #32,260 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,260
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aequo
Nearest frequency peer: aequo (-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 « affirmative »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- absolution
absolution
67,744 corpus weight
- addictions
addictions
67,743 corpus weight
- aequo
aequo
67,742 corpus weight
- affirmative
affirmative
67,741 corpus weight
- agitant
agitant
67,740 corpus weight
- agronomique
agronomique
67,739 corpus weight
What this shows « affirmative » 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 | affirmative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fiʁ.ma.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #32,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affirmative »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around affirmative (IPA \a.fiʁ.ma.tiv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,260 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Toute proposition par laquelle on affirme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for affirmative, with forms such as "affimrative", "affiramtive", and "affirmaitve". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "affirmatif", "affirmation", 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is affirmative, spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Toute proposition par laquelle on affirme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affirmative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Répondre par l’affirmative.
Ils sont toujours d’avis différents ; jamais l’un ne nie une chose que l’autre ne prenne l’affirmative.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affimrative
- affiramtive
- affirmaitve
- affirmatiev
- affirmativve
- affirmattive
- affirmatvie
- affirmmative
- affirmtaive
- affirrmative
- affrimative
- afifrmative
- afirmative
- fafirmative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affirmative - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).