Which to use
“affinité” and “affinités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,859
- “affinité” frequency rank
- #16,290
- “affinités” frequency rank
- 34149
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affinité | affinités |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Degré de proximité que le mariage fait acquérir à un homme avec les parents de sa femme, et à une femme avec ceux de son mari. | Pluriel de affinité. |
Same sound, different letters: affinité vs affinités
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. affinité runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCV) against affinités's 9 (VCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - affinité / affinités
This is the hard kind. affinité and affinités are pronounced identically (\a.fi.ni.te\) and both work as anoun. 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 extra letter(s) - “affinité” sits inside “affinités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34149, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affinité is recorded at frequency rank #17,859, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.fi.ni.te\. affinités is at rank #16,290, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.fi.ni.te\.
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 34149, this pair ranks #285,827 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of affinité vs affinités
Shared letters: afinté. Private to "affinité": -. Private to "affinités": s.
"affinité" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV · "affinités" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "affinité" and "affinités" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "affinité" or "affinités" show up more?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "affinité" / "affinités". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "affinité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affinités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #285,827 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affinité" and "affinités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affinage vs affinité". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #285,827 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.