Which to use
“affilié” and “affiliées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,108
- “affilié” frequency rank
- #33,103
- “affiliées” frequency rank
- 51211
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affilié | affiliées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est dans un groupement, une association. | Féminin pluriel de affilié. |
Same sound, different letters: affilié vs affiliées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. affilié runs 7 letters (VCCVCVV) against affiliées's 9 (VCCVCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - affilié / affiliées
This is the hard kind. affilié and affiliées are pronounced identically (\a.fi.lje\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “affilié” sits inside “affiliées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51211, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affilié is recorded at frequency rank #18,108, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.fi.lje\. affiliées is at rank #33,103, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.fi.lje\.
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 51211, this pair ranks #156,738 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of affilié vs affiliées
Shared letters: afilé. Private to "affilié": -. Private to "affiliées": es.
"affilié" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV · "affiliées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "affilié" and "affiliées" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "affilié" or "affiliées"?
After this comparison
"affilié" and "affiliées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "affilié" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affiliées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #156,738 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affilié" and "affiliées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affiliée vs affiliées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #156,738 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.