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 and divides as af-faire under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.