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affaires

French, noun

affaires is spelled A-F-F-A-I-R-E-S (8 letters) and appears 162 times per million words in written French, the 504th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affaires is a French feminine noun meaning “belongings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of affaire. With an accent, affairés is a different word: “masculine plural of affairé”.

What does affaires mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineplural of affaire

  2. 2

    femininebelongings

    Ne touchez pas à mes affaires.

  3. 3

    femininebusiness

adjective

as affairés
  1. 1

    masculinemasculine plural of affairé

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common is affaires in French?

affaires appears 162 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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