afflux
\a.fly\
The verdict
“afflux” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,056
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’affluer, concours des liquides vers une partie de l’organisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afflux · afflux · French
afflux · rank #17,056 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,056
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affichant
Nearest frequency peer: affichant (-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 « afflux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- absurdité
absurdité
82,948 corpus weight
- achètes
achètes
82,947 corpus weight
- affichant
affichant
82,946 corpus weight
- afflux
afflux
82,945 corpus weight
- alcoolisme
alcoolisme
82,944 corpus weight
- Alonso
Alonso
82,943 corpus weight
What this shows « afflux » 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 | afflux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fly\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « afflux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around afflux (IPA \a.fly\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,056 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for afflux, with forms such as "affllux", "affluxx", and "afflxu". 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, "affreux", "affluer", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 afflux, spelled A-F-F-L-U-X.
Definition
- 1Action d’affluer, concours des liquides vers une partie de l’organisme.
- 2Mouvement du fluide électrique vers un point.
- 3Toute arrivée de personnes ou de choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afflux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parfois, il se lève, il parcourt deux ou trois fois sa cellule dans sa plus grande largeur, et, brusquement, alors, un afflux de sang empourpre cette tête.
Et, en définitive, dans cette Bretagne qu'on nous disait si pauvre, nous observons une région où il y a grand afflux d'argent et où une sorte d'aristocratie paysanne exerce son influence.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affllux
- affluxx
- afflxu
- affulx
- aflfux
- aflux
- faflux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of afflux - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).