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affluent

/ˈæf.lu.ənt/noun, adjective

affluent is spelled A-F-F-L-U-E-N-T: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 17,813th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, affluent means “Someone who is wealthy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of affluent is affluents.

How many letters and syllables are in affluent?

Letters8: A-F-F-L-U-E-N-T
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.3 times per million words; the 17,813th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is affluent?

Affluent appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 17,813th 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 affluent?

  • /ˈæf.lu.ənt/
  • /ˈæfluːənt/
  • /æˈfluːənt/

Affluent has 3 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-affluent.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of affluent

  • affluents plural
  • more affluent comparative
  • most affluent superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does affluent mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who is wealthy.

  2. 2

    A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

adjective

  1. 1

    Abundant; copious; plenteous.

  2. 2

    Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.

    They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.

  3. 3

    datedTributary.

  4. 4

    obsoleteFlowing to; flowing abundantly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Affluent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrichard (someone who is wealthy), abondant (abundant), riche (abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy), affluent (tributary)
GermanGeldsack, Reicher (someone who is wealthy), reichlich (abundant), wohlhabend, begütert, reich (abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy)
Spanishricachón (someone who is wealthy), abundante (abundant), adinerado, acaudalado, rico, acomodado (abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy)
Portugueseafluente (abundant)

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 affluent come from?

Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence. By surface analysis, af- + fluent.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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