affiliate
/əˈfɪl.i.ət/
"affiliate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“affiliate” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #7,195 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,195
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
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 | affiliate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈfɪl.i.ət/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “affiliate” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for affiliate is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈfɪl.i.ət/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,195 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for affiliate, with forms such as "affiilate", "affilaite", and "affiliaet". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "affiliated", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Late Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to Latin affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié (noun). The correct English form is affiliate, spelled A-F-F-I-L-I-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Late Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to Latin affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié (noun).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: affiilate,affilaite,affiliaet,affiliatte,affilitae,affilliate,affliiate,afifliate,afiliate,fafiliate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affiliate - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “affiliate”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-F-F-I-L-I-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /əˈfɪl.i.ət/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “affiliated” - see the side-by-side comparison. affiliate vs affiliated
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.