familia
/fəˈmɪlɪə/
"familia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“familia” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #32,803 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #32,803
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | familia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fəˈmɪlɪə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “familia” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for familia is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fəˈmɪlɪə/. Corpus data places it at rank #32,803 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for familia, with forms such as "afmilia", "faimlia", and "famiila". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "family", "familiar", "familial", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin familia (“family”). Doublet of family. The correct English form is familia, spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
- 2The paterfamilias, his legitimate descendants and their wives, all persons adopted into his family and their wives, and all slaves belonging to the household.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin familia (“family”). Doublet of family.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afmilia,faimlia,famiila,familai,famillia,famliia,fammilia,ffamilia,fmailia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of familia - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “familia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-A-M-I-L-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /fəˈmɪlɪə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “family” - see the side-by-side comparison. familia vs family
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.