affaire

/[aˈfeɾ]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#51,340

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

affaire is aSpanishnoun. It means: Situación o asunto ilegal o ilícito, y asociado con la reprobación moral o social. http://lema.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=affaire Pronounced [aˈfeɾ].

Key facts for affaire
PropertyValue
Headwordaffaire
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈfeɾ]
Letters7
Frequency rank#51,340
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of affaire in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for affaire is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈfeɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,340 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for affaire in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is affaire, spelled A-F-F-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Situación o asunto ilegal o ilícito, y asociado con la reprobación moral o social. http://lema.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=affaire
  2. 2
    Relación romántica o sexual que puede ser reprobable o censurable por alguna razón legal, moral o social.

Frequency rank: #51,340 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "affaire"?
"affaire" is spelled A-F-F-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈfeɾ].
What does "affaire" mean?
As a noun, "affaire" means: Situación o asunto ilegal o ilícito, y asociado con la reprobación moral o social. http://lema.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=affaire
How do you pronounce "affaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affaire" is [aˈfeɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affaire" come from?
"affaire" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.