affiliate
/əˈfɪl.i.ət/noun, verb
affiliate is spelled A-F-F-I-L-I-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is affilate: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 35 of all searches for the word. Affiliate is a noun meaning “Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related…”. The plural of affiliate is affiliates.
How many letters and syllables are in affiliate?
| Letters | 9: A-F-F-I-L-I-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.8 times per million words; the 7,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, affilate, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell affiliate?
Affiliate is spelled A-F-F-I-L-I-A-T-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for affiliate in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is affiliate?
Affiliate appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce affiliate?
- US /əˈfɪl.i.ət/
As a verb (“To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring”): /əˈfɪl.i.eɪt/.
Affiliate has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-affiliate-noun.ogg, En-us-affiliate-verb.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of affiliate
- affiliates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- affiliating participle, present
- affiliated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does affiliate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
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 local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.
verb
- 1
To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
- 2
to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
- 3
To fix the paternity of
to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
- 4
To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
- 5
To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Affiliate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Tochterunternehmen, Tochtergesellschaft, Zweigunternehmen, Zweigniederlassung, Tochter, Geschäftspartner |
| Spanish | afiliado, afiliada, filial , afiliarse |
| Portuguese | afiliar, filiar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does affiliate come from?
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).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).