affreuses
\a.fʁøz\
The verdict
“affreuses” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,124. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,124
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de affreux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affreuses · affreuses · French
affreuses · rank #38,124 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,124
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affair
Nearest frequency peer: affair (-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 « affreuses »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accélérant
accélérant
61,880 corpus weight
- acétate
acétate
61,879 corpus weight
- affair
affair
61,878 corpus weight
- affreuses
affreuses
61,877 corpus weight
- agar
agar
61,876 corpus weight
- ailé
ailé
61,875 corpus weight
What this shows « affreuses » 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 | affreuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fʁøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affreuses »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around affreuses (IPA \a.fʁøz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,124 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de affreux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for affreuses, with forms such as "afferuses", "affresues", and "affreuess". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "affreuse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is affreuses, spelled A-F-F-R-E-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de affreux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affreuses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous venez de le voir, mon jeune ami, reprit le vieillard, il était impossible que vous restassiez plus longtemps parmi nous sans connaître quelques-unes des affreuses particularités de la vie de cette sainte femme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afferuses
- affresues
- affreuess
- affreusess
- affreusses
- affrreuses
- affrueses
- afreuses
- afrfeuses
- fafreuses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affreuses - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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