affluent

Other forms of affluent

plural

affluents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about affluent

What does affluent mean?

affluent means "an affluent person; a person who is financially well off". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in affluent?

affluent has 3 syllables: af-flu-ent. The stress falls on "af". In IPA it is /ˈæfluənt/.

What is another word for affluent?

Close synonyms include feeder, tributary, confluent, flush, loaded. 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 affluent a common word?

affluent is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.