affaire
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#526
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
affaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chose dont on doit s’occuper à faire. Pronounced \a.fɛʁ\. It ranks #526 in French word frequency. Often confused with affamé and affine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for affaire is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.fɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #526 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for affaire, with forms such as "afafire", "afaire", and "affaier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "affamé", "affine", "affilé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 French 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
- 1Chose dont on doit s’occuper à faire.
- 2Ce qui est le sujet de quelque occupation.
- 3Ce qui est sujet de quelques préoccupations.
- 4Engagement au front ; combat.
- 5Toute chose dont on a à discuter, à démêler avec quelqu’un dans le commerce de la vie.
- 6Convention ; marché ; traité ; transaction commerciale ; entreprise d’industrie ; spéculation financière.
- 7Cas traité par la justice.
- 8Est aussi un terme général que l’on substitue souvent dans le langage ordinaire à des termes propres et particuliers. Il s’emploie ainsi dans des significations très diverses et quelquefois dans des sens opposés qu’il est impossible d’indiquer tous.
- 9Effets personnels.
- 10Objet que l’on a du mal à définir ou à nommer ; patente, machin.
- 11Une certaine quantité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afafire,afaire,affaier,affairre,affarie,affiare,fafaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for affaire
Misspelling Variants of "affaire"
Frequency rank: #526 in French
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Nearby French words
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