affliction
\a.flik.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“affliction” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,417
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Immense chagrin ; abattement profond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affliction · affliction · French
affliction · rank #45,417 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,417
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affaiblissent
Nearest frequency peer: affaiblissent (-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 « affliction »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ADR
ADR
54,587 corpus weight
- adulé
adulé
54,586 corpus weight
- affaiblisse…
affaiblissent
54,585 corpus weight
- affliction
affliction
54,584 corpus weight
- aficionados
aficionados
54,583 corpus weight
- agitateur
agitateur
54,582 corpus weight
What this shows « affliction » 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 | affliction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.flik.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affliction »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around affliction (IPA \a.flik.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,417 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for affliction, with forms such as "affilction", "afflcition", and "afflicction". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "affection", "affiliation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is affliction, spelled A-F-F-L-I-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Immense chagrin ; abattement profond.
- 2Grand malheur ; catastrophe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affliction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après que plusieurs mois furent passés, elle sortit de cette violente affliction où elle était, et passa dans un état de tristesse et de langueur.
Si de tous les hommes les uns mouraient, les autres non, ce serait une désolante affliction que de mourir.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affilction
- afflcition
- afflicction
- affliciton
- afflictino
- afflictionn
- afflictoin
- afflicttion
- afflitcion
- afflliction
- aflfiction
- afliction
- fafliction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affliction - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).