Which to use
“affectées” and “affecter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,793
- “affectées” frequency rank
- #10,111
- “affecter” frequency rank
- 25904
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affectées | affecter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe affecter. | Destiner et appliquer une chose ou une personne à un certain usage. |
Same sound, different letters: affectées vs affecter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - affectées and affecter
This is the hard kind. affectées and affecter are pronounced identically (\a.fɛk.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25904, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affectées is recorded at frequency rank #15,793, classified as averb, 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 25904, this pair ranks #338,216 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of affectées vs affecter
Shared letters: aceft. Private to "affectées": sé. Private to "affecter": r.
"affectées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "affecter" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- affecter ← afecter · afefcter · affceter · affeccter · affecetr · affecterr · affectre · affectter
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "affectées" for "affecter" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "affectées" or "affecter" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "affectées" 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 #338,216 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affectées" and "affecter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affectées 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 #338,216 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.