affiliation

\a.fi.lja.sjɔ̃\

/\a.fi.lja.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“affiliation” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,637
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’affilier, de s’affilier à une compagnie, à une corporation, à une communauté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-affiliation · affiliation · French

affiliation · rank #18,637 · 13 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,637
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH affectif

Nearest frequency peer: affectif (-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 « affiliation »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « affiliation » 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).

affiliation vs affliction
82% similar
affiliation vs affirmation
82% similar

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

Key facts for affiliation
PropertyValue
Headwordaffiliation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.fi.lja.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#18,637
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « affiliation »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.affiliationse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « affectif » (#18,636), « agace » (#18,638), « achetées » (#18,635). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « affiliation » est au #18,637. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around affiliation (IPA \a.fi.lja.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,637 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action d’affilier, de s’affilier à une compagnie, à une corporation, à une communauté.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for affiliation, with forms such as "affiilation", "affilaition", and "affiliaiton". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "affliction", "affirmation", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is affiliation, spelled A-F-F-I-L-I-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’affilier, de s’affilier à une compagnie, à une corporation, à une communauté.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il y a affiliation entre ces deux communautés religieuses, entre plusieurs loges de francs-maçons.
  2. Affiliation à un complot, à une société secrète.

This word in other languages

affiliation(English)afiliación(Español)Verwandtschaft(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • affiilation
  • affilaition
  • affiliaiton
  • affiliatino
  • affiliationn
  • affiliatoin
  • affiliattion
  • affilitaion
  • affilliation
  • affliiation
  • afifliation
  • afiliation
  • fafiliation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affiliation - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

affiilation2affilaition2affiliaiton2affiliatino2affiliationn1affiliatoin2affiliattion1affilitaion2
Edit distance from "affiliation"

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 "affiliation"?
"affiliation" is spelled A-F-F-I-L-I-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fi.lja.sjɔ̃\.
What does "affiliation" mean?
As a noun, "affiliation" means: Action d’affilier, de s’affilier à une compagnie, à une corporation, à une communauté.
What words are commonly confused with "affiliation"?
"affiliation" is commonly confused with "affliction", "affirmation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "affiliation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affiliation" is \a.fi.lja.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affiliation" come from?
"affiliation" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

émergent13 variantsamusement13 variantsanticipée13 variantssanglant13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list