affluence
\a.fly.ɑ̃s\
The verdict
“affluence” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,406
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’affluer, au propre et au figuré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affluence · affluence · French
affluence · rank #14,406 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,406
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH af
Nearest frequency peer: af (-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 « affluence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abrutis
abrutis
85,599 corpus weight
- acquéreur
acquéreur
85,598 corpus weight
- adepte
adepte
85,597 corpus weight
- af
af
85,596 corpus weight
- affluence
affluence
85,595 corpus weight
- allergique
allergique
85,593 corpus weight
What this shows « affluence » 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 | affluence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fly.ɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affluence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around affluence (IPA \a.fly.ɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,406 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action d’affluer, au propre et au figuré.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for affluence, with forms such as "affleunce", "afflluence", and "affluecne". 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, "affluent", "affluents", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is affluence, spelled A-F-F-L-U-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’affluer, au propre et au figuré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affluence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 25 novembre dernier est décédé, à Dergneau, M. Léopold Bruneau qui, depuis plus de 30 ans, vulgarisait l'apiculture raisonnée dans sa région. Ses funérailles ont eu lieu au milieu d'une grande affluence de monde ; tous les apiculteurs du pays avaient tenu à conduire, à sa dernière demeure, leur bien-aimé conseiller.
L’affluence des eaux qui provenaient de la fonte des neiges fit déborder la rivière.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affleunce
- afflluence
- affluecne
- affluencce
- affluenec
- affluennce
- afflunece
- affulence
- aflfuence
- afluence
- fafluence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affluence - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).