affiliéesvsaffiliésConfusable pair

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.

9 ch
affiliées
8 ch
affiliés

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?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.fi.lje\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "affiliées" vs "affiliés" - which ranks higher?
"affiliés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,796 in our French list, against #33,103 for "affiliées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list