affirmation
/æfɝˈmeɪʃn/noun
affirmation is spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is afformation: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 127 of all searches for the word. Affirmation is a noun meaning “That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true”. The plural of affirmation is affirmations.
How many letters and syllables are in affirmation?
| Letters | 11: A-F-F-I-R-M-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, afformation, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell affirmation?
Affirmation is spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 127 of the searches for affirmation 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 affirmation?
Affirmation appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th 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 affirmation?
- US /æfɝˈmeɪʃn/
Affirmation 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-affirmation.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with affirmation?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as affirmation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃn/):
- information
- formation
- preparation
- presentation
- relation
- identification
- observation
- variation
- obligation
- simulation
- notification
- calculation
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of affirmation
- affirmations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does affirmation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true.
Her success was an affirmation of all her hard work.
- 2
A solemn pledge (to tell the truth, to bear allegiance, etc.), legally equivalent to an oath, taken by people who are forbidden to take a religious oath (such as Quakers) or otherwise prefer not to do so.
- 3
A form of self-forced meditation or repetition; autosuggestion.
Daily positive affirmations can improve self-confidence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate affirmation?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of affirmation: aff.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Affirmation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | affirmation |
| German | Bestätigung, Zustimmung , Autosuggestion, Selbsteinrede |
| Portuguese | afirmação |
| Spanish | afirmación |
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 affirmation come from?
From Old French afermacion, from Latin affirmare (“to assert”). Doublet of affirmatio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).