affaire
"affaire" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“affaire” is uncommon English (frequency #73,844 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,844
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of affair.
Corpus desk
Index EN-affaire · affaire · English
affaire · rank #73,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,844
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH afrobeat
Nearest frequency peer: afrobeat (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “affaire”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- absconding
absconding
26,162 corpus weight
- acceptably
acceptably
26,161 corpus weight
- affaire
affaire
26,157 corpus weight
- afrobeat
afrobeat
26,156 corpus weight
- aglow
aglow
26,154 corpus weight
- aldosterone
aldosterone
26,151 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “affaire” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affaire |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “affaire” in English
Rare enough to double-check
affaire is uncommon English at frequency #73,844 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of affair.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for affaire, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is affaire, spelled A-F-F-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of affair.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how affaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Secretarie hath this accustomed maner, though his head be neuer so full of most weightie affaires of the Realme, yet, at diner time he doth seeme to lay them alwaies aside
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).