affaire

Questions about affaire

What does affaire mean?

affaire means "a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship".

How many syllables are in affaire?

affaire has 2 syllables: af-faire. The stress falls on "af".

What is another word for affaire?

Close synonyms include affair, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is affaire a common word?

affaire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.