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Which to use

“family” and “lupo” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#7,759
“family” frequency rank
#45,434
“lupo” frequency rank
53193
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature family lupo
Definition Familie der Wolf

Letter map: family vs lupo

Shared letters muted; letters that set family and lupo apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. family runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against lupo's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
family
4 ch
lupo

Pair insight - family / lupo

family and lupo are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53193, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

family is recorded at frequency rank #7,759, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. lupo is at rank #45,434, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].

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 53193, this pair ranks #1,067,604 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of family vs lupo

Shared letters: l. Private to "family": afimy. Private to "lupo": opu.

"family" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "lupo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • familyafmily · faimly · familly · familyy · famiyl · famliy · fammily · ffamily
  • lupollupo · lpuo · luop · luppo · ulpo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "family" and "lupo" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "family" vs "lupo" - which ranks higher?
"family" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,759 in our German list, against #45,434 for "lupo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "family" and "lupo". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "family" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lupo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,067,604 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "family" and "lupo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lupo vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,067,604 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list