affinité

/\a.fi.ni.te\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,859

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

affinité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Degré de proximité que le mariage fait acquérir à un homme avec les parents de sa femme, et à une femme avec ceux de son mari. Pronounced \a.fi.ni.te\. Often confused with affinités and affine.

Key facts for affinité
PropertyValue
Headwordaffinité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.fi.ni.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#17,859
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of affinité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for affinité is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.fi.ni.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,859 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for affinité, with forms such as "affiinté", "affinite", and "affinitté". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "affinités", "affine", "affilié", 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 affinité, spelled A-F-F-I-N-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Degré de proximité que le mariage fait acquérir à un homme avec les parents de sa femme, et à une femme avec ceux de son mari.
  2. 2
    Conformité qui existe entre diverses choses.
  3. 3
    Liaison que des personnes ont ensemble, à raison de quelques rapports entre leurs caractères, leurs goûts, leurs opinions.
  4. 4
    Tendance des substances de nature différente à s’unir ensemble.
  5. 5
    Transformation d'un objet géométrique qui l’étire ou le contracte uniformément dans une direction.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: affiinté,affinite,affinitté,affiniét,affinnité,affintié,affniité,afifnité,afinité,fafinité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for affinité

Misspelling Variants of "affinité"

affiinté8affinite8affinitté9affiniét8affinnité9affintié8affniité8afifnité8
Misspelling Variants of "affinité"

Frequency rank: #17,859 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "affinité"?
"affinité" is spelled A-F-F-I-N-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fi.ni.te\.
What does "affinité" mean?
As a noun, "affinité" means: Degré de proximité que le mariage fait acquérir à un homme avec les parents de sa femme, et à une femme avec ceux de son mari.
What words are commonly confused with "affinité"?
"affinité" is commonly confused with "affinités", "affine", "affilié". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "affinité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affinité" is \a.fi.ni.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affinité" come from?
"affinité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.