Which to use
“affectée” is an adjective and “affecter” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #12,296
- “affectée” frequency rank
- #10,111
- “affecter” frequency rank
- 22407
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affectée | affecter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de affecté. | Destiner et appliquer une chose ou une personne à un certain usage. |
Same sound, different letters: affectée vs affecter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - affectée and affecter
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: affectée and affecter carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.fɛk.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22407, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affectée is recorded at frequency rank #12,296, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.fɛk.te\. affecter is at rank #10,111, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.fɛk.te\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 22407, this pair ranks #358,133 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of affectée vs affecter
Shared letters: aceft. Private to "affectée": é. Private to "affecter": r.
"affectée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV · "affecter" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- affecter ← afecter · afefcter · affceter · affeccter · affecetr · affecterr · affectre · affectter
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "affectée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affecter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #358,133 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affectée" and "affecter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affectée vs affects". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #358,133 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.