extended family
"extended-family" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“extended family” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A family consisting of parents and children, along with additional members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-extended-family · extended family · English
extended family · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extended family |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “extended family” in English
Rare enough to double-check
extended family is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A family consisting of parents and children, along with additional members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for extended family in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is extended family, spelled E-X-T-E-N-D-E-D- -F-A-M-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1A family consisting of parents and children, along with additional members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how extended family appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Angaran females typically give birth to several young who require support and supervision, resulting in large extended families that become accustomed to living and working together.
The old men nap on couches, waiting for dessert. It’s the extended family in all its tangled, loving, exhausting glory.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.