infecter
\ɛ̃.fɛk.te\
The verdict
“infecter” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,134. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,134
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gâter, inoculer des germes contagieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infecter · infecter · French
infecter · rank #34,134 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,134
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indûment
Nearest frequency peer: indûment (-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 « infecter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- indécise
indécise
65,870 corpus weight
- indûment
indûment
65,868 corpus weight
- infecter
infecter
65,867 corpus weight
- informatici…
informaticiens
65,866 corpus weight
- infructueus…
infructueuses
65,865 corpus weight
- ingrate
ingrate
65,864 corpus weight
What this shows « infecter » 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 | infecter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɛk.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infecter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around infecter (IPA \ɛ̃.fɛk.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,134 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for infecter, with forms such as "ifnecter", "inefcter", and "infceter". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "insecte", "injecte", "insectes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is infecter, spelled I-N-F-E-C-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Gâter, inoculer des germes contagieux.
- 2Empester, empuantir.
- 3Contaminer un ordinateur par un logiciel malveillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infecter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, si l'on sait infecter des tissus de Tabac cultivés in vitro avec des virions ⁽³⁾, aucune tentative n'a été faite pour viroser des cultures de tissus avec l'ARN du VMT et vérifier si les colonies éventuellement infectées restaient virosés après des repiquages successifs.
La cuscute, nommée teigne dans le pays , infecte trop souvent les luzernes et les semis de vesce; on essaie de la détruire, en enfouissant à la fourche toutes les plantes attaquées; […].
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnecter
- inefcter
- infceter
- infeccter
- infecetr
- infecterr
- infectre
- infectter
- infetcer
- inffecter
- innfecter
- nifecter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infecter - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "infecter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).