affiliated

adj

"affiliated" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“affiliated” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,521
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Associated, related, or united; subject to a particular affiliation.

Corpus desk

Index EN-affiliated · affiliated · English

affiliated · rank #7,521 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,521
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH administered

Nearest frequency peer: administered (-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.

Rank peers near misspelling magnet “affiliated”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “affiliated” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

affiliated vs afflicted
80% similar
affiliated vs affiliate
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for affiliated
PropertyValue
Headwordaffiliated
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Frequency rank#7,521
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “affiliated”

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).affiliatedlands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “administered” (#7,520), “apples” (#7,522), “WWE” (#7,519). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “affiliated” is #7,521. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around affiliated, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,521 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Associated, related, or united; subject to a particular affiliation.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for affiliated, with forms such as "affiilated", "affilaited", and "affiliaetd". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "afflicted", "affiliate", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is affiliated, spelled A-F-F-I-L-I-A-T-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Associated, related, or united; subject to a particular affiliation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how affiliated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. We are not affiliated with any commercial publisher.
  2. The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • affiilated
  • affilaited
  • affiliaetd
  • affiliatde
  • affiliatedd
  • affiliatted
  • affilitaed
  • affilliated
  • affliiated
  • afifliated
  • afiliated
  • fafiliated

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affiliated - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

affiilated2affilaited2affiliaetd2affiliatde2affiliatedd1affiliatted1affilitaed2affilliated1
Edit distance from "affiliated"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "affiliated"?
"affiliated" is spelled A-F-F-I-L-I-A-T-E-D.
What does "affiliated" mean?
As an adjective, "affiliated" means: Associated, related, or united; subject to a particular affiliation.
What words are commonly confused with "affiliated"?
"affiliated" is commonly confused with "afflicted", "affiliate". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "affiliated" come from?
"affiliated" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "affiliated", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list