Which to use
“affiche” is a noun and “affilé” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #2,403
- “affiche” frequency rank
- #46,560
- “affilé” frequency rank
- 48963
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affiche | affilé |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Feuille souple ou rigide affichant un message, ou une image, imprimé ou écrit que l’on applique contre les murs pour donner connaissance au public de quelque chose. | Qui a le tranchant fin, aiguisé. |
Where the eye mixes affiche and affilé
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. affiche runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against affilé's 6 (VCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: affiche vs affilé
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: affiche is \a.fiʃ\ while affilé is \a.fi.le\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48963, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affiche is recorded at frequency rank #2,403, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.fiʃ\. affilé is at rank #46,560, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.fi.le\.
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 48963, this pair ranks #174,617 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of affiche vs affilé
Shared letters: afi. Private to "affiche": ceh. Private to "affilé": lé.
"affiche" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "affilé" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- affiche ← affcihe · afficche · afficeh · affichhe · affihce · afiche · afifche · fafiche
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "affiche" for "affilé" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "affiche" or "affilé" show up more?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "affiche" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affilé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #174,617 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affiche" and "affilé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affable vs affilé". 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 #174,617 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.