family history
"family-history" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“family history” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An extension to genealogy in which the life and times of the people concerned are investigated.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | family history |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “family history” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
family history is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
family history doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is family history, spelled F-A-M-I-L-Y- -H-I-S-T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1An extension to genealogy in which the life and times of the people concerned are investigated.
- 2Information concerning the disorders suffered by the direct relatives of a patient; especially useful if the disorders are genetic.
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 history”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-A-M-I-L-Y- -H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- 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.