affreuse
\a.fʁøz\
The verdict
“affreuse” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,198. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,198
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de affreux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affreuse · affreuse · French
affreuse · rank #19,198 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,198
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accomplis
Nearest frequency peer: accomplis (-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 « affreuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Abdallah
Abdallah
80,806 corpus weight
- aboutissent
aboutissent
80,805 corpus weight
- accomplis
accomplis
80,804 corpus weight
- affreuse
affreuse
80,803 corpus weight
- agiter
agiter
80,802 corpus weight
- ajoutait
ajoutait
80,801 corpus weight
What this shows « affreuse » 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 | affreuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fʁøz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affreuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around affreuse (IPA \a.fʁøz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,198 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de affreux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for affreuse, with forms such as "afferuse", "affresue", and "affreues". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "affreux", "affreuses", "affres", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is affreuse, spelled A-F-F-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de affreux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affreuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Allons, bon ! j’allais passer mon flacon à la citoyenne, pour la désempester de cette affreuse odeur de chair grillée qui s’échappe de la conversation, et voilà que je me souviens d’avoir perdu ce flacon à Paris.
Mettez une robe de chez Doucet sur la Vénus de Milo, la pauvre femme serait affreuse…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afferuse
- affresue
- affreues
- affreusse
- affrreuse
- affruese
- afreuse
- afrfeuse
- fafreuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affreuse - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).