familia
/fəˈmɪlɪə/
"familia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“familia” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,803. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,803
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-familia · familia · English
familia · rank #32,803 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,803
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH facilitator
Nearest frequency peer: facilitator (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “familia”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- exertion
exertion
67,201 corpus weight
- expend
expend
67,200 corpus weight
- facilitator
facilitator
67,199 corpus weight
- familia
familia
67,198 corpus weight
- fanfic
fanfic
67,197 corpus weight
- ferocity
ferocity
67,195 corpus weight
What this shows “familia” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “familia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around familia (IPA /fəˈmɪlɪə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,803 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how familia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Joska's elder brother Phuro was, however, seen as the leader of his familia. As one of the oldest males in the hamlet, with a familia that consisted of sons, bora and sons-in-law, Phuro's position as head of his familia was given by his age and by his authority as father.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "familia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).