Which to use
“affection” and “affections” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,360
- “affection” frequency rank
- #19,731
- “affections” frequency rank
- 26091
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affection | affections |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Sentiment d’aimer quelqu’un avec attachement ou tendresse, et qui nous porte à vouloir son bien-être ou son bonheur ; amitié ou amour non passionnel ou romantique. | Pluriel de affection. |
Same sound, different letters: affection vs affections
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - affection and affections
This is the hard kind. affection and affections are pronounced identically (\a.fɛk.sjɔ̃\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “affection” sits inside “affections”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26091, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affection is recorded at frequency rank #6,360, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.fɛk.sjɔ̃\. affections is at rank #19,731, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.fɛk.sjɔ̃\.
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 26091, this pair ranks #337,153 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of affection vs affections
Shared letters: acefinot. Private to "affection": -. Private to "affections": s.
"affection" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "affections" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- affection ← afection · afefction · affcetion · affecction · affeciton · affectino · affectionn · affectoin
- affections ← afections · afefctions · affcetions · affecctions · affecitons · affectinos · affectionns · affectionss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "affection" and "affections" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "affection" vs "affections" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "affection" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affections" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #337,153 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affection" and "affections" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affections vs affectives". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #337,153 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.