affinité
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affinité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fi.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Degré 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.
- 2Conformité qui existe entre diverses choses.
- 3Liaison que des personnes ont ensemble, à raison de quelques rapports entre leurs caractères, leurs goûts, leurs opinions.
- 4Tendance des substances de nature différente à s’unir ensemble.
- 5Transformation d'un objet géométrique qui l’étire ou le contracte uniformément dans une direction.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: affiinté,affinite,affinitté,affiniét,affinnité,affintié,affniité,afifnité,afinité,fafinité
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Misspelling Variants of "affinité"
Frequency rank: #17,859 in French
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