affres
\afʁ\
The verdict
“affres” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,232. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,232
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de affre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affres · affres · French
affres · rank #36,232 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,232
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adhérentes
Nearest frequency peer: adhérentes (-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 « affres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accouchemen…
accouchements
63,772 corpus weight
- additif
additif
63,771 corpus weight
- adhérentes
adhérentes
63,770 corpus weight
- affres
affres
63,769 corpus weight
- aguerris
aguerris
63,768 corpus weight
- alegre
alegre
63,766 corpus weight
What this shows « affres » 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 | affres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \afʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around affres (IPA \afʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,232 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de affre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for affres, with forms such as "affers", "affress", and "affrres". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "ares", "après", "aires", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is affres, spelled A-F-F-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de affre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Même après le floculat de nos micelles, nos atonies sont encore avides de combinaisons ; heureusement nous ne les sentons plus ; mais, auparavant, quand le moment est venu, quelle peine nous avons à nous démoléculiser, quelles affres, sauf exception rare, pour rompre notre état colloïdal !
Quand on nous a arrêtés ce matin, le lieutenant était aux premières affres d’une bonne attaque de choléra sec. J’ai l’impression qu’il a fait école. Attendons-nous encore à diminuer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affers
- affress
- affrres
- affrse
- afres
- afrfes
- fafres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affres - 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).