Which to use
“affiliées” and “affiliés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #33,103
- “affiliées” frequency rank
- #16,796
- “affiliés” frequency rank
- 49899
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affiliées | affiliés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de affilié. | Masculin pluriel de affilié. |
Same sound, different letters: affiliées vs affiliés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. affiliées runs 9 letters (VCCVCVVVC) against affiliés's 8 (VCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: affiliées vs affiliés
This is the hard kind. affiliées and affiliés 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49899, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affiliées is recorded at frequency rank #33,103, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.fi.lje\. affiliés is at rank #16,796, 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 49899, this pair ranks #166,992 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of affiliées vs affiliés
Shared letters: afilsé. Private to "affiliées": e. Private to "affiliés": -.
"affiliées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVVVC · "affiliés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "affiliées" and "affiliés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "affiliées" vs "affiliés" - 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 "affiliées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affiliés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #166,992 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affiliées" and "affiliés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affiliée vs affiliées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #166,992 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.