affirme

\a.fiʁm\

/\a.fiʁm\/ verb

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The verdict

“affirme” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,753
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affirmer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-affirme · affirme · French

affirme · rank #2,753 · 8 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,753
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH étudier

Nearest frequency peer: étudier (-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 « affirme »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « affirme » 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).

affirme vs affirmer
88% similar
affirme vs affirmée
88% similar
affirme vs affirment
78% similar

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

Key facts for affirme
PropertyValue
Headwordaffirme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.fiʁm\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,753
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affirme »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « étudier » (#2,752), « angle » (#2,754), « électeurs » (#2,751). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « affirme » est au #2,753. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around affirme (IPA \a.fiʁm\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,753 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affirmer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affirmer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe affirmer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe affirmer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe affirmer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ben non, je vais tougher, que j’affirme.
  2. En juin 1890, dans une lettre à Pierre Louys, Valéry déclare avoir lu tout Verlaine hors La Bonne Chanson et, refusant de s’intituler « esthète » ou « symboliste » comme étiquette trop trop précise ou trop étroite, affirme son désir, quand il lui plaira, d’être décadent et de « verlainiser », ce qui pour lui équivaut alors à « oublier la rime, le rythme,…

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.

affimre2affirem2affirmme1affirrme1affrime2afifrme2afirme1fafirme2
Edit distance from "affirme"

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 "affirme"?
"affirme" is spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fiʁm\.
What does "affirme" mean?
As a verb, "affirme" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe affirmer.
What words are commonly confused with "affirme"?
"affirme" is commonly confused with "affirmer", "affirmée", "affirment". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "affirme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affirme" is \a.fiʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affirme" come from?
"affirme" 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 "affirme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

étudier#2,752portent#2,731gardien#2,778mettant#2,725

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

voisin8 variantschère8 variantsclubs8 variantssoucis8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list