affiliéevsaffiliéesTell them apart

Quick tell: affiliée is a noun, affiliées is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“affiliée” is a noun and “affiliées” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#34,395
“affiliée” frequency rank
#33,103
“affiliées” frequency rank
67498
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature affiliée affiliées
Definition Participante à une affiliation. Féminin pluriel de affilié.

Same sound, different letters: affiliée vs affiliées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. affiliée runs 8 letters (VCCVCVVV) against affiliées's 9 (VCCVCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
affiliée
9 ch
affiliées

Same sound, different spelling - affiliée / affiliées

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: affiliée and affiliées carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.fi.lje\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “affiliée” sits inside “affiliées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67498, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

affiliée is recorded at frequency rank #34,395, classified as anoun, 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 67498, this pair ranks #63,201 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of affiliée vs affiliées

Shared letters: aefilé. Private to "affiliée": -. Private to "affiliées": s.

"affiliée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVV  ·  "affiliées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "affiliée" and "affiliées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "affiliée" is a noun and "affiliées" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "affiliée" vs "affiliées" - which ranks higher?
"affiliées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,103 in our French list, against #34,395 for "affiliée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "affiliée" 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 #63,201 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "affiliée" and "affiliées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affilé vs affiliée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #63,201 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list