family tree
"family-tree" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“family tree” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | family tree |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “family tree” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for family tree is 11 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for family tree in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is family tree, spelled F-A-M-I-L-Y- -T-R-E-E.
Definition
- 1A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
- 2The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring.
- 3A model or diagram showing the relationships and evolution of specified languages over time.
- 4A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.
- 5A data structure that organizes resources or machines in a distributed system, consisting of nodes connected by edges, in which each node may also contain a subnode.
This word in other languages
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 tree”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-A-M-I-L-Y- -T-R-E-E - 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.