affoler
\a.fɔ.le\
The verdict
“affoler” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,639. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,639
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre comme fou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affoler · affoler · French
affoler · rank #37,639 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,639
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affect
Nearest frequency peer: affect (-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 « affoler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- advenir
advenir
62,365 corpus weight
- Aff
Aff
62,364 corpus weight
- affect
affect
62,363 corpus weight
- affoler
affoler
62,362 corpus weight
- affranchiss…
affranchissement
62,360 corpus weight
- agréer
agréer
62,359 corpus weight
What this shows « affoler » 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 | affoler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.fɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affoler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around affoler (IPA \a.fɔ.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,639 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for affoler, with forms such as "affloer", "affoelr", and "affolerr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "affole", "affilé", "affilée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is affoler, spelled A-F-F-O-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre comme fou.
- 2Se dépêcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affoler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi ces dégrafées célèbres qu’Alexandre, déambulant ou assis sur une chaise de fer, voyait passer en voiture, une l’affolait positivement : Cora Pearl.
La famille Dreffas compte vous affoler en publiant votre écriture dans les journaux, et que vous vous enfuirez en Hongrie chez vos parents.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affloer
- affoelr
- affolerr
- affoller
- affolre
- afofler
- afoler
- fafoler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affoler - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).