affirme
\a.fiʁm\
The verdict
“affirme” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,753 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #2,753
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affirmer.
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 | affirme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fiʁm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “affirme” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for affirme is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.fiʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,753 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for affirme, with forms such as "affimre", "affirem", and "affirmme". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "affirmer", "affirmée", "affirment", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is affirme, spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affirmer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affirmer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe affirmer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe affirmer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe affirmer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: affimre,affirem,affirmme,affirrme,affrime,afifrme,afirme,fafirme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affirme - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “affirme”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-F-F-I-R-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.fiʁm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “affirmer” - see the side-by-side comparison. affirme vs affirmer
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.