affront
\a.fʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“affront” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,523. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,523
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outrage fait en face, soit en paroles, soit en action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affront · affront · French
affront · rank #21,523 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,523
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affective
Nearest frequency peer: affective (-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 « affront »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abusif
abusif
78,481 corpus weight
- adolescentes
adolescentes
78,480 corpus weight
- affective
affective
78,479 corpus weight
- affront
affront
78,478 corpus weight
- alone
alone
78,477 corpus weight
- antre
antre
78,476 corpus weight
What this shows « affront » 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 | affront |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affront »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around affront (IPA \a.fʁɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,523 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for affront, with forms such as "affornt", "affrnot", and "affronnt". 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, "auront", "affronte", "affronter", 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is affront, spelled A-F-F-R-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1Outrage fait en face, soit en paroles, soit en action.
- 2Honte, déshonneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affront appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ensuite, il se fâcha, força le docteur à accepter un verre de quelque chose. La demoiselle ne lui ferait pas l’affront de refuser du sirop.
Par une inconcevable mansuétude, Elle avait toléré l’affront des fêtes décadaires, l’outrage de la déesse Raison vautrée sur l’autel à sa place […]
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affornt
- affrnot
- affronnt
- affrontt
- affrotn
- affrront
- afrfont
- afront
- fafront
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affront - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).