Which to use
“affamé” and “affamés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,093
- “affamé” frequency rank
- #21,225
- “affamés” frequency rank
- 45318
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affamé | affamés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui souffre de la faim, par absence ou privation de nourriture, avoir très faim. | Masculin pluriel de affamé. |
Same sound, different letters: affamé vs affamés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. affamé runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against affamés's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - affamé and affamés
This is the hard kind. affamé and affamés are pronounced identically (\a.fa.me\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “affamé” sits inside “affamés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45318, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affamé is recorded at frequency rank #24,093, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.fa.me\. affamés is at rank #21,225, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.fa.me\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 45318, this pair ranks #203,663 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of affamé vs affamés
Shared letters: afmé. Private to "affamé": -. Private to "affamés": s.
"affamé" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "affamés" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "affamé" and "affamés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "affamé" vs "affamés" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "affamé" / "affamés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "affamé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affamés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #203,663 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affamé" and "affamés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affamé vs affilé". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #203,663 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.