# familial

> English word · Adjective · IPA /fəˈmɪljəl/ · frequency rank #21,792

## Definitions
1. Of or pertaining to a human family.
2. Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.
3. Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.
4. Inherited.

## Etymology
From French familial (“relating to a family; familial”), from Latin familia (“family (in the sense of the slaves working for a household); household”) (from famulus (“servant; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-, from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, place, put”)) + French -al (adjective-forming suffix) (from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *-li-). By surface analysis, family + -al. Piecewise doublet of familiar.

## Easily confused with
- **filial** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/familial-vs-filial)
- **familiar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/familial-vs-familiar)
- **familia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/familia-vs-familial)

## Common misspellings (11)
`afmilial`, `faimlial`, `famiilal`, `familail`, `familiall`, `familila`, `famillial`, `famliial`, `fammilial`, `ffamilial`, `fmailial`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/familial