affectation
French, noun/a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/
affectation is spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-A-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affectation is a French feminine noun meaning “allocation, allotment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Destination, application d’une chose à un certain usage”.
What does affectation mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineallocation, allotment
- 2
feminineassignment
- 3
feminineposting
- 4
feminineaffectation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Destination, application d’une chose à un certain usage. 2. Action d’assigner un poste ; ce poste lui-même. 3. Action de doter une grandeur d’un signe qui en modifie la valeur. 4. Acte ou fait ayant pour conséquence d’incorporer un bien au domaine public.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of affectation
- affectations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affectation?
- /a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/
- \a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃\
- [a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to affectation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is affectation in French?
affectation appears 4.2 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).