affilé

\a.fi.le\

/\a.fi.le\/ adj

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The verdict

“affilé” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,560
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a le tranchant fin, aiguisé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-affile · affilé · French

affilé · rank #46,560 · 7 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,560
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH adressons

Nearest frequency peer: adressons (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « affilé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « affilé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

affilé vs ailé
67% similar
affilé vs asile
50% similar
affilé vs agile
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for affilé
PropertyValue
Headwordaffilé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.fi.le\
Letters6
Frequency rank#46,560
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affilé »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).affilése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « adressons » (#46,559), « agenouiller » (#46,561), « acrobates » (#46,557). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « affilé » est au #46,560. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around affilé (IPA \a.fi.le\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,560 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a le tranchant fin, aiguisé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for affilé, with forms such as "affile", "affillé", and "affiél". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "ailé", "asile", "agile", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is affilé, spelled A-F-F-I-L-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a le tranchant fin, aiguisé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how affilé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. – Si c’est un chien, je l’égorge ; ce n’est pas pour rien que j’ai mon couteau affilé.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • affile
  • affillé
  • affiél
  • afflié
  • afiflé
  • afilé
  • fafilé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affilé - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

affile1affillé1affiél2afflié2afiflé2afilé1fafilé2
Edit distance from "affilé"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "affilé"?
"affilé" is spelled A-F-F-I-L-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fi.le\.
What does "affilé" mean?
As an adjective, "affilé" means: Qui a le tranchant fin, aiguisé.
What words are commonly confused with "affilé"?
"affilé" is commonly confused with "ailé", "asile", "agile". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "affilé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affilé" is \a.fi.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affilé" come from?
"affilé" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "affilé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

aigris#46,567answer#46,576écœuré#46,544Anubis#46,577

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

waste7 variantsavouée7 variantsaïkido7 variantsturco7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list