Which to use
“affiche” is a noun and “affilée” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #2,403
- “affiche” frequency rank
- #13,100
- “affilée” frequency rank
- 15503
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affiche | affilée |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe affiler. |
Where the eye mixes affiche and affilée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. affiche (VCCVCCV) and affilée (VCCVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Visual trap between affiche and affilée
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: affiche is \a.fiʃ\ while affilée is \a.fi.le\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15503, 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\. affilée is at rank #13,100, tagged as averb, 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 15503, this pair ranks #392,060 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of affiche vs affilée
Shared letters: aefi. Private to "affiche": ch. Private to "affilée": lé.
"affiche" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "affilée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- affiche ← affcihe · afficche · afficeh · affichhe · affihce · afiche · afifche · fafiche
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "affiche" and "affilée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "affiche" vs "affilée" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "affiche" and "affilée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "affiche" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affilée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #392,060 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affiche" and "affilée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affilé vs affilée". 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 #392,060 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.