family-friendly
"family-friendly" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“family-friendly” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Suitable for families consisting of parents and minor children.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | family-friendly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “family-friendly” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
family-friendly is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for family-friendly, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is family-friendly, spelled F-A-M-I-L-Y---F-R-I-E-N-D-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Suitable for families consisting of parents and minor children.
- 2Promoting the welfare of the family structure.
- 3Devoid of material deemed inappropriate for children such as sexually-explicit text or images, use of profanity, or references to the use of illegal drugs.
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.
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Using “family-friendly”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-A-M-I-L-Y---F-R-I-E-N-D-L-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.