Which to use
“affecter” and “affectés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,111
- “affecter” frequency rank
- #9,263
- “affectés” frequency rank
- 19374
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affecter | affectés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Destiner et appliquer une chose ou une personne à un certain usage. | Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe affecter. |
Same sound, different letters: affecter vs affectés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - affecter and affectés
This is the hard kind. affecter and affectés 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19374, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affecter is recorded at frequency rank #10,111, classified as averb, pronounced \a.fɛk.te\. affectés is at rank #9,263, 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 19374, this pair ranks #373,595 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of affecter vs affectés
Shared letters: aceft. Private to "affecter": r. Private to "affectés": sé.
"affecter" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC · "affectés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- affecter ← afecter · afefcter · affceter · affeccter · affecetr · affecterr · affectre · affectter
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "affecter" and "affectés" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "affecter" vs "affectés" - which ranks higher?
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 "affecter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affectés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #373,595 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affecter" and "affectés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affecter 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 #373,595 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.